[BrawnyBadger53]

Anything but expanding copyright laws. Tbh, a pay per citation with an opt in database to add your info (think music streaming style monetization) would be reasonable to me. Not that I think it's a good scheme for music but I think it's fitting for web crawling. Though it does inevitably lead to enshitification. Pick your poison I guess.

[wulfstan]

The reason it works for music is because the people behind the databases have a team of lawyers that will come after you for violating copyright/performance legislation if you don’t pay your dues.

The argument that LLM outfits are using is that they are just exercising “fair use” / education rights to do an end run around copyright law. Without strengthening the rules on that I’m not sure I see how the database + team of lawyers approach would work.

But with that, sure, that’s an approach that seems to have legs in other contexts.