But what is missing is a more generalized infrastructure for detecting content ownership and providing compensation in a general purpose way. This is one of the great business opportunities of the next few years, awaiting the kind of breakthrough that pay-per-click search advertising brought to the World Wide Web.

There are people out there who looked at the World Wide Web and immediately thought: “how can I use this for advertising?” From that type of perspective, this is a well-thought-out summary of AI-related copyright issues.