ByteDance's decision to delay Seedance 2.0's global rollout over copyright concerns [4] landed as confirmation that legal pressure on generative AI is real — but the confirmation comes with a structural problem. The rights holders that delayed ByteDance are labels, not artists. The SCOTUS refusal to hear an appeal upholding the ruling that AI-generated content lacks copyright protection follows the same logic: it resolves who can own the output without addressing who loses income when that output floods the market. Both legal developments point in directions that benefit established…