On "Neither a Lender Be"

I just read James Van Pelt’s short story “Neither a Lender Be,” from the collection Strangers and Beggars (see IA). It is about a teacher, William, whose teaching style is scraped (with consent) by an ed-tech corporation and copyrighted. They then legally prevent William from teaching again—but again and again he finds ways to defy the order, ultimately teaching in the prison where he is held.

(“Real artists will keep making art no matter what,” say the AI corporations today. But at what cost?)