What I'm actually doing this month.
Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page movement: a public, dated answer to "what are you up to?" Written for me as much as for you.
IPTO: pushing the licensing API toward general availability and signing the first cohort of rights holders.
Why every AI policy debate ends up at the same place: the absence of a real-time, machine-readable rights market.
Posner & Weyl on radical markets; old papers on royalty exchanges; everything I can find on Japanese creator licensing as a comparative case.
A short Abhi Cris record built around tempo as a single argument across six tracks.
Talking to rights holders, AI labs, and policy people who actually want a market, not a moratorium.
If you came in through this door
These three pages develop the things on this list:
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Ideas
The five claims I'd defend in public: IP economics, post-AGI creativity, human data rights, music as system, the operator's frame.
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Ventures
IPTO, Create Protocol, Human Data Rights, and the trail of earlier work that fed them.
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Music
Abhi Cris: the parallel discipline. Why I treat tracks the way I treat product launches.
Worth a conversation if…
You're a rights holder thinking about programmatic licensing. You're an AI lab that wants a market, not a moratorium. You're a policy person tired of the privacy frame. You're a builder making something at this intersection.