Back in the day when I used to consult for tech companies, one of the questions I would ask their founders was "is this company meant to make a profit, or is it meant to be sold?" Because if the answer was the latter - and it often was! - then the issue of recouping funding was a very different one.
John Scalzi
John, that seems like something of an insurmountable paradox:
if you can't actually copyright, and make A LOT OF money from AI generated stuff ... then ... how will these companies recoup their debts?