Topic: ai licensing
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Microsoft to Launch AI App Store for Content Licensing
Microsoft is launching a Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM) to create a structured hub where publishers can license their content to AI companies for legal use in training models, with compensation based on detailed usage reports. The initiative is being developed in collaboration with major med...
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Disney & OpenAI: A Game-Changer for AI Copyright
Disney and OpenAI have formed a strategic partnership, granting OpenAI a license to use Disney characters in its Sora video model while Disney receives a financial stake and internal access to the technology. This collaboration represents a pragmatic shift for Disney, which historically litigates...
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Official AI Licensing Standard Now Requires Payment for Scraping
The Really Simple Licensing 1.0 (RSL) standard allows publishers to set rules and require payment from AI companies that scrape their web content, evolving beyond the basic access controls of robots.txt files. Supported by major infrastructure firms like Cloudflare, RSL enables publishers to sele...
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Wikipedia to License Content to AI Companies
The Wikimedia Foundation has established new paid licensing agreements with major tech firms like Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, formalizing their use of Wikipedia content to train AI models and creating a revenue stream. These deals, managed through Wikimedia Enterprise, provide structured API acc...
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Warner Music and Udio Settle AI Copyright Lawsuit, Strike New Deal
Warner Music Group has resolved its copyright dispute with Udio and formed a strategic partnership to launch a licensed AI music platform in 2026, using authorized content to create new income streams for artists while protecting their rights. The upcoming subscription service will enable users t...
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AI Clones Let Adult Film Stars Preserve Youthful Image
The adult entertainment industry is being transformed by generative AI, with a new model emerging that focuses on performer consent and control through the licensing of digital likenesses. Veteran performers like Lisa Ann and Cherie Deville are partnering with platforms to create AI clones, viewi...
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Search Traffic to Plunge 43% by 2029, Report Warns Publishers
A major industry report predicts a 43% decline in search engine referral traffic within three years, driven by the rise of AI-powered answer platforms that provide direct information without requiring clicks to publisher websites. Content categories like lifestyle guides and weather reports are a...
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Creative Commons Weighs 'Pay-to-Crawl' for AI Training
Creative Commons is exploring a "pay-to-crawl" model to automate payments to websites when AI bots scrape their content, aiming to provide publishers a revenue stream and balance creator needs with AI industry demands. This proposed system could help offset publishers' lost web traffic from AI ch...
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LLM Confessions & Unlocking Geothermal Energy's Potential
The U.S. has rescinded previous vehicle fuel efficiency standards, a move debated for its impact on consumer costs versus transportation emissions. Multiple sectors face policy shifts, including debates over AI regulation, a retail giant's potential independent delivery network, and public health...
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Nvidia's trillion-parameter open model still trails China's biggest
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B-parameter MoE model with 3B active parameters, a 1M-token context, and a permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license that allows free commercial use,marking a strategic shift toward open-weight distribution. Benchmarks show solid but not spectacular results: 81.94...
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NEA's Tiffany Luck: Enterprises Still Figuring Out AI ROI
Silicon Valley's "tokenmaxxing" trend, where CEOs pushed maximum AI usage, led to financial blowback like Uber burning through its annual AI budget quickly and Meta scrapping its internal AI leaderboard. NEA partner Tiffany Luck focuses on the friction between AI hype and ROI, having previously c...
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