Look. I’m supposed to be working on an MS this morning. But this Anthropic capitulation settlement has made me incandescently angry, and apparently I have to shriek for a while before my creativity will make friends with me again.

I don’t want to write about the Anthropic capitulation settlement itself. People are doing that all over. But one little factoid has emerged: as part of the settlement, you need to have your work registered with the US Copyright Office, and that has to have happened...