AI licensing can sound like a moral argument until you look at the product constraints. If the best material is behind paywalls and contracts, “just scrape it” stops working.

In this bonus clip, Daniel pressures the obvious skeptical question: if big AI companies can afford lawsuits, why bother building fair, legal access at all? Julie Trelstad’s answer is practical. She expects the next wave of AI advancements to include many more small, domain-specific models, and those models will need verified, high-quality sources like textbooks and peer-reviewed journals.

🎧 Want the bigger picture?

This clip is one piece of a longer conversation with Julie about “AI rights” in publishing, how provenance and permissions can become machine-readable, and what it could look like for creators to get paid when their work is use ...