AP offers buyouts as AI and tech companies now drive revenue growth
Newspapers once built the AP. Now they are 10% of its revenue.
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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its content
Britannica says OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 articles to train ChatGPT, then used the chatbot to steal its traffic.
A new licensing push could force AI companies to pay publishers for news
The fight over AI pay for news is moving from private deal rooms into policy
OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads with no revenue share for publishers
Unlike Perplexity, the company has no plans to cut in the news organizations fueling its answers.
Google to UK lawmakers: If it’s free on the web, it’s free for us to train
Google exec says training isn't about copying content but is instead about producing "wholly new content."
Creative Commons warns pay-to-crawl could become the new DRM
The nonprofit offers seven principles to prevent 'pay-to-crawl' from becoming a new form of DRM.
Disney finds Google’s lack of licensing disturbing, forces takedown of AI videos
Mouse House's cease and desist hit YouTube days before Disney licensed character licensing deal with OpenAI
RSL licensing standard reaches v1.0 milestone; 1,500+ publishers on board
The open standard lets publishers set machine-readable terms for AI training on their content.