The National Post reports in its Friday, July 17, edition that there is a struggle between artificial intelligence training in tech and content creation in culture, resulting in litigation and a rise in licencing agreements as a market solution. Postmedia's Hugh Stephens writes that anyone who has seen the striking graphic "Who is Suing Whom in AI," will be struck by the enormity and breadth of the issue, which is so cleverly displayed, with the big AI developers such as Perplexity, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Openai and others at the centre, and the creators ranged around the periphery. It is a stunning visual encompassing more than 100 lawsuits in the United States. That graphic was up-to-date as of June. Since then, at least one more major lawsuit has been filed, by a group of textbook authors against Meta. The graphic does not include the first such case in Canada, where a group of media organizations (Canadian Press, Torstar, the Globe and others) is suing OpenAI, or the Getty Images case in the U.K., or indeed any cases outside the U.S. From this graphic, it would seem that to resolve the issue of how copyrighted content is going to be used in AI development and training, litigation is the inevitable route.