Delusional Futures

Rights are not abstract. They are proof of origin, memory of contribution, the only line between creation and extraction. When provenance breaks, rights collapse. And if provenance now lives inside process, then process itself has to become the proof.

The beauty of New York is you never know who will be in town or how perfect the timing will be. Amidst all the chaos of the courts, Doug Shapiro, media heavyweight and top voice on AI's impact on content, and Artem Petrov, founder of 

 are both in town and we're going to discuss what it means when process becomes provenance in practice but not yet in the law. 

Around this table we’ll cut into what these lawsuits really mean, how companies can defend content in a world without assets, and how attribution frameworks can realign power so that creators are recognized and compensated instead of erased.

Process is Provenance: Creative Rights in the Age of Gen AI