Jack Conte did not arrive at SXSW as a legal theorist. He arrived as a musician and a platform CEO who has spent years watching AI companies make an argument that their own business decisions contradict. The argument he named — that signing licensing deals with Disney and Warner Music undermines the simultaneous claim that scraping is legal fair use — requires no specialized training to follow. That accessibility is exactly what made it land. Courts require evidentiary standards; conference audiences do not. Conte translated a structural legal problem into…