New Book Showcases ‘Proof of Creation’ System as AI Copyright Battles Escalate
United States, 30th Jan 2026 – The physical edition of “Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer: How Ownership, Origin, and AI Redraw the Creative Map” just launched, arriving as The New York Times pursues litigation against OpenAI and music publishers mount legal challenges against AI music companies. Author Jason “Johnny Suede” Colapietro, named inventor on multiple patents in creative IP systems, argues that neither lawsuits nor policy reforms will protect creators—only cryptographic infrastructure can anchor ownership. The book’s central thesis: “If you cannot prove origin, you cannot defend value.”
The global creator economy generates over $250 billion annually, yet individual creator compensation has declined as streaming platforms pay fractions of a cent while AI models generate unlimited content at near-zero cost. Colapietro argues legal battles address symptoms, not the underlying architecture that enables extraction.
THE PROBLEM: RIGHTS ESCALATION
The book identifies “rights escalation,” a process where a work is created, sampled, embedded in an AI model, then generates millions of outputs with revenue aggregating at distribution edges. Original creators become economically invisible while intermediaries multiply. Voice cloning illustrates this: an artist’s voice is sampled, trained into a model, then used to generate thousands of songs with the original vocalist receiving nothing. Generative AI multiplied this problem by orders of magnitude.
THE SOLUTION: PROOF OF CREATION
Colapietro proposes cryptographically anchoring the creative act before distribution occurs, establishing a creation moment, human presence, authorship identity, and consent parameters. This makes ownership provable, not just contractual, giving creators leverage when negotiating rights.
The framework introduces programmable ownership, where rights split automatically when collaborators join, adjust at milestones, and pay without intermediaries. Rules are encoded in systems where corporate policies cannot override them, turning legal arguments into executable code.
The book distinguishes sanctioned AI models—where artists are acknowledged, compensated, maintain control, and earn from downstream usage—from unsanctioned models that treat artists as raw material. As autonomous AI agents begin creating and transacting independently, Colapietro argues origin must be embedded from the beginning or “nobody owns anything and everybody extracts.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Colapietro is named inventor on multiple patents covering creative IP provenance, authorship verification, and music generation systems. He is the founder of Suede Labs, building the ‘Human Authenticity Layer for AI.’ The patents indicate working technology, positioning him as someone building actual systems rather than theorizing. The book targets the “creative middle class”—working artists who need mechanisms, not favors.
AVAILABILITY
“Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer” is available now in physical and digital editions on Amazon. The 12-chapter manifesto addresses creators, technologists, policymakers, and anyone concerned with AI’s impact on creative economies.
“Creators own what they make. Creators prove what they made. Creators get paid when their work is used,” Colapietro writes. “When that becomes boring, we will have won.”
The work is designed to become infrastructure, boring and fundamental, not fireworks.
About Suede Labs
Suede Labs builds the Human Authenticity Layer for AI, focused on provenance, authorship verification, and programmable rights. Jason “Johnny Suede” Colapietro works at the intersection of creative IP, cryptographic systems, and AI accountability.
More information: Suedeai.ai or find the book on Amazon here
Company Details
Organization: Suede Labs
Contact Person: Johnny Suede
Website: https://suedeai.ai
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Country: United States
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