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Title: New Book Showcases 'Proof of Creation' System as AI Copyright Battles Escalate

United States, 30th Jan 2026 - The physical edition of "Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer: How Ownership, Origin, and AI Redraw the Creative Map" just launched, arriving as The New York Times pursues litigation against OpenAI and music publishers mount legal challenges against AI music companies. Author Jason "Johnny Suede" Colapietro, named inventor on multiple patents in creative IP systems, argues that neither lawsuits nor policy reforms will protect creators—only cryptographic infrastructure can anchor ownership. The book's central thesis: "If you cannot prove origin, you cannot defend value."The global creator economy generates over $250 billion annually, yet individual creator compensation has declined as streaming platforms pay fractions of a cent while AI models generate unlimited content at near-zero cost. Colapietro argues legal battles address symptoms, not the underlying architecture that enables extraction.THE PROBLEM: RIGHTS ESCALATIONThe book identifies “rights escalation,” a process where a work is created, sampled, embedded in an AI model, then generates millions of outputs with revenue aggregating at distribution edges. Original creators become economically invisible while intermediaries multiply. Voice cloning illustrates this: an artist's voice is sampled, trained into a model, then used to generate thousands of songs with the original vocalist receiving nothing. Generative AI multiplied this problem by orders of magnitude.THE SOLUTION: PROOF OF CREATIONColapietro proposes cryptographically anchoring the creative act before distribution occurs, establishing a creation moment, human presence, authorship identity, and consent parameters. This makes ownership provable, not just contractual, giving creators leverage when negotiating rights.The fra...

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