Boundary unsettled
Leans fair use (firms)
Leans infringement (authors)
The fair-use boundary gate: unsettled leaves both transfer regimes open and the leverage fork decides; leaning one way reroutes toward a single regime. Logic only, no amounts asserted.
Training-input cash flow and copyright litigation leverage
training corpora
copyrighted works
model builders'
capex stack
cash stays in
corpora in · zero license cost
no licensing payment
works taken free,
no compensation
Authors
no contractual claim
sole lever: suit
uncompensated taking
suit
fair-use
boundary unsettled
liability neither zero
nor fully priced
price of training
becomes negotiation
leverage decides
licensing
market forms
transfer stays
unilateral