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The Credtent Blog

Our thinking on AI, creative rights, copyright, and what it means to make something human in 2026. Published on Substack and Medium.

Medium Mar 24, 2026

The Creative Fatalism Trap in the Age of AI

Why "the scrapers are going to take my work anyway" is the most dangerous sentence in creative IP protection — and what the winning move actually looks like.

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Medium Mar 24, 2026

The UK's AI Copyright Update Is Newtonian. Style Protection Requires Einstein.

The UK's latest copyright ruling is a genuine win — but classical copyright was built to protect expressions, not creative voice. A different framework is needed for a different era.

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Medium Dec 23, 2025

Anthropic's $1.5B Payout: Are Opt-Out Law Firms Taking Writers for a Ride?

Law firms are now recruiting writers to reject Anthropic's copyright settlement and pursue private litigation instead. We ask whether that strategy serves creators — or their counsel.

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Substack Jun 24, 2025

Human-Composed: Why AI Creation and Human Creativity Remain Fundamentally Different

A response to the MIT Technology Review's argument that AI and human creativity work similarly — and why statistical pattern synthesis is nothing like a lifetime of lived experience.

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Substack Apr 1, 2025

Unfair Use: Denormalizing AI Theft

The creative economy spent a decade normalizing content aggregation. AI training is the same pattern at a different scale — and the moment to stop treating it as inevitable is now.

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Substack Mar 29, 2025

HollywoodGPT: AI Controversy and the Oscars

The AI disclosure debate hit the Academy Awards with The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez. What the controversy reveals about creative integrity, and what the industry still hasn't decided.

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