In the 2026 Olympic gold medal men’s ice hockey game, American player Jack Hughes scored the overtime game-winning goal, clinching the gold medal for Team USA. His goal was reminiscent of when Sidney Crosby, captain of Team Canada, scored the “golden goal” in overtime against Team USA in 2010. However, these stories diverge beyond just the country each represented because the respective national heroes disagree about who should own the infamous pucks for each of those goals. Crosby said that he never even thought about owning the puck and was simply happy to have scored the goal. He was delighted that the puck would rest in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Hughes, on the other hand, believes that he should receive the puck because he is the one who scored the goal.

The eruption of Artificial Intelligence technologies has created new problems for lawmakers. One of the most controversial functions of AI is the way the technologies train themselves. Currently, AI training processes hundreds of millions of datapoints publicly available on the internet. These include sites likes Wikipedia and Project Gutemberg, as well as articles, blogs, forums, and images. One consequence is that the technology may avail itself to copyrighted material during training. Thus, ownership of the new content may be called into question.