The intellectual property landscape hasn't faced disruption of this magnitude since the internet arrived — and the internet analogy is instructive precisely because it took Congress nearly a decade to pass the DMCA after courts began improvising. Generative AI is moving faster, and the courts are again ahead of the legislature. What this means institutionally is that whichever case produces the first appellate ruling on training-data fair use will effectively set licensing norms for the entire industry — not because the ruling will be binding everywhere, but because every deal…