A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects and the Quandary of Copyright in AI

Intellectual Property law is a recent innovation in social policy which formalises a millennium of assumptions about who owns a thing, has authority over its dispersal, or profits from its use in the world. Given recent Large Language Model innovations, this branch of law is suddenly crucial, as it’s on the edge of defining, and defending, how things, content, stories, pictures, music and more are…