A new form of copyright, where only you will ever be in control

"I have seen over the years, and during the last few months in particular, lots of authors and artists expressing concern or rage at how large language models ("LLMs") and the Internet Archive are abusing creators by engaging in unauthorised copying, often described as "stealing my content".

Of course, these organisations claim that the copying they're doing is legal. A number of law suits are going through the courts right now to test both sides of this disagreement, which means there's a chance that the LLM companies and the Internet Archive are correct in their various legal analyses.

I have an idea for a new form of copyright that would settle the controversy in favour of these concerned creators. It would be available to artists and authors as an alternative to the current type of copyright. No one will be forced to use it, but I'm sure it will be attractive to some.

In this regime, you, the author or artist, will get absolute, non-transferable control over every possible form of copying of any recognisable portion of your work for the whole of your lifetime.

As this new copyright will be non-transferable, you will not be permitted to assign it to any other person, or to any corporate entity. Corporations will not be able to access this new form of copyright, and will continue to use the current regime.

Creativity is a personal act; this new right will only ever vest with the individual person who created the work, if that's their preference.

Fair Use or Fair Dealing doctrines will never apply to your work, nor will your work ever enter the Public Domain to be copied uncontrollably...."