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## Segment 2 — tail2

## Article 126 — a126

# Rahul Telang

**Co-author of the source article** "Can Gen AI and Copyright Coexist?" (Harvard Business Review, July 2025).

**Profile:** A professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College specializing in the economics of information systems, digital media markets, and piracy; co-author (with [[entity-michael-d-smith]]) of *Streaming, Sharing, Stealing* and related work on how digital technology reshapes creative industries.

**Role in this source:** co-author/analytical voice, jointly responsible for the article's thesis and strategic prescriptions.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:** the "killing the goose" framing (see [[quote-killing-the-goose]]); the [[framework-rightsholder-defense]]; the [[framework-gen-ai-risk-mitigation]]; and the macroeconomic stakes argument (see [[claim-creative-industry-gdp]]).