SO YOU WANT TO SUE THE AI COMPANIES?
As copyright lawsuits pile up in the West,
global rivals accelerate.
The real question isn’t about lawsuits.It’s about whether you want to shape the future
or be left out of it.
In 2025, the courtroom battles rage on.
Disney and Universal just filed a new lawsuit against Midjourney,joining the wave already targeting Suno, Udio, OpenAI, and others.
Accusations include data scraping, stolen voices,and outright infringement.
Over 45 lawsuits have now been filed in the U.S. alone,with labels like Sony, Warner, and Universal leading the charge.
But here's the deeper question:
Will those same lawsuits reach Chinese giantslike Baidu or Alibaba’s AI labs?
Indian startups like Sarvam or Krutrim?
Or decentralized collectiveswith no CEO, no address,
and no legal entry point?
If not, then what’s really being accomplished?
You can’t untrain a model that’s already learned.You can’t rewind a global tech shift.
You can’t rely on litigation to hold back transformation.
If AI is blocked from accessingthe full spectrum of human culture:
music, books, film, and art,
how can it develop meaningful intelligence?
Limiting it doesn’t protect creativity.It stalls it.
Meanwhile, others are moving fast.Decentralized systems.
Offshore labs.
Rogue AIs trained in the shadows.
These aren’t hypotheticals anymore.They’re reality.
And the more pressure we apply in public,the more development shifts underground.
So what’s the smarter move?
Rebuild the framework.Modernize intellectual property from the ground up.
Let people remix, reinterpret, reimagine.But track it.
Share it.
Credit it.
Monetize it.
Platforms can track use.Smart contracts can split earnings.
Creators can benefit from the remix economy
instead of fighting it.
We also need two paths forward.One for the official story.
One for the fans keeping it alive.
Because often,they’re not just preserving the vision.
They’re improving it.
And while some courts are starting to recognize the complexity,like Anthropic’s June 2025 fair use win,
the law alone won’t solve this.
Not fast enough.
What we need is leadership.Clarity.
Courage.
A framework that rewardsboth the source
and the spark.
If we don’t act, we risk the opposite.
AI tools disappearing into private silos.Creativity locked out of its own future.
The cultural narrative slipping beyond reach.
This isn’t a time for panic.It’s a time for design.
The next chapter is being written now.
History doesn’t ask for permission.It demands leadership.
It demands vision.
And despite everything,I still believe this can unlock something extraordinary,
just like the internet did.
A new wave of expression.A new economy of imagination.
We are the visitors now.We are the aliens we feared.
And what we choose to build next
will define whether we come in peace... or not.
WRITTEN BYPAUL BARAKA
CEOAward-Winning Composer
Sound Designer
Media Storyteller
Creative Fugitive from the Old World