{"id":231754,"date":"2024-05-24T08:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/?p=231754"},"modified":"2024-05-24T08:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T08:55:10","slug":"licensing-deals-litigation-raise-raft-of-familiar-questions-in-fraught-world-of-platforms-and-publi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/licensing-deals-litigation-raise-raft-of-familiar-questions-in-fraught-world-of-platforms-and-publi\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensing deals, litigation raise raft of familiar questions in fraught world of platforms and publi&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past few weeks, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/openai-news-corp-strike-deal-23f186ba\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News Corp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/33328743-ba3b-470f-a2e3-f41c3a366613\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/dotdash-meredith-announces-strategic-partnership-with-openai-bringing-iconic-brands-and-trusted-content-to-chatgpt-302138231.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dotdash Meredith<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> became the latest news organizations to strike licensing deals with OpenAI, while <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/2024\/04\/29\/axel-springer-and-microsoft-expand-partnership-across-advertising-ai-content-and-azure-services\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Axel Springer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3ed7737e-3649-4afb-9071-caa13e7394d9\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Informa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> teamed up with Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the terms of the FT deal, financial details of which are unknown, OpenAI will get access to content from both sides of the FT\u2019s paywall to help train the tech firm\u2019s generative AI technology. Once trained, OpenAI\u2019s flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, will be able to answer questions with summaries from FT journalism and will provide links back to the original source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A day after the FT and Axel Springer deals were announced, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/04\/30\/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news broke<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that eight newspapers owned by subsidiaries of Alden Global Capital, including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, and Denver Post, were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/27\/business\/media\/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">following<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the New York Times in suing OpenAI and Microsoft for infringing their copyright when training their respective generative AI products, ChatGPT and Copilot. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.law360news.com\/1831000\/1831297\/complaint.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also accuses the tech firms of making unauthorized use of the newspapers\u2019 trademarks, removing copyright management information, and causing reputational damage by attributing \u201challucinated\u201d answers to the newspapers\u2019 reporting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These developments typify the latest chapter in a fraught relationship between platforms and publishers, where the big question for news organizations \u2013\u00a0or some might argue, the chosen few that are given a choice \u2013\u00a0is: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deal or no deal?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (For those not invited to the table, it\u2019s more a case of: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deal with it<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comparing previous chapters is not a perfect case of comparing oranges and oranges;\u00a0 however, aspects of the current moment contain echoes of the recent past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around a decade ago, having faced up to the reality that social platforms had become an unavoidable part of the information ecosystem, news organizations were weighing the extent to which they would shift their business models and practices to align with tech platforms\u2019 promises of jam tomorrow. A few years later, the chosen few were deciding whether to accept offers to be paid launch partners on new products like Facebook Live and Instant Articles. More recently, the question has become whether to take money, credits, or training sessions offered as part of big-money journalism initiatives like Google\u2019s Digital News Initiative and the Facebook Journalism Project.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup_box\" class=\"hidden-print\">\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup\" class=\"hidden-print\"><center><span class=\"form-title-embed\">Sign up for <span class=\"cjr-bold\">CJR<\/span>&#8216;s daily email<\/span><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OpenAI\u2019s licensing deal with the FT was the fifth such arrangement it has struck since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022. The first came last July when it reached an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/openai-chatgpt-associated-press-ap-f86f84c5bcc2f3b98074b38521f5f75a\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the Associated Press. Since then similar deals have been done with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axelspringer.com\/en\/ax-press-release\/axel-springer-and-openai-partner-to-deepen-beneficial-use-of-ai-in-journalism\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Axel Springer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/about-us\/article\/2024\/03\/13\/le-monde-signs-artificial-intelligence-partnership-agreement-with-open-ai_6615418_115.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le Monde<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisa.com\/es\/noticias\/noticias-1\/openai-anuncia-un-acuerdo-con-prisa-media-y-le-monde\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prisa Media<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But licensing deals are not the only way tech firms have forged financial relationships with the journalism world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hot on the heels of its licensing deal with the AP, OpenAI announced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theajp.org\/news-insights\/announcements\/american-journalism-project-announces-new-partnership-with-openai-to-support-local-news\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a partnership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the American Journalism Project for which it would pay $5 million in cash and up to $5 million in OpenAI API credits. Five months later, just before the turn of the year, AJP <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theajp.org\/product-ai-studio\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">distributed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 13 grants of $25,000-200,000 via a Product &amp; AI Studio created as part of the OpenAI partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February, Microsoft <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/on-the-issues\/2024\/02\/05\/journalism-news-generative-ai-democracy-forward\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> five partnerships that covered news organizations (Semafor, and the GroundTruth Project, which places journalists in local newsrooms through its Report for America program), education (Craig Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York), industry organizations (Online News Association), and software development (Nota).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like Microsoft, OpenAI has also delved into the education sector, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/about\/news-publications\/news\/2023\/august\/arthur-l--carter-journalism-institute-launches-ethics-initiative.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">awarding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> $395,000 to NYU\u2019s Ethics and Journalism Initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to news reports, the big players \u2013 including Apple, Amazon, and Adobe, as well as OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google \u2013\u00a0 have engaged numerous news organizations in discussions about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/33328743-ba3b-470f-a2e3-f41c3a366613\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">potential<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/22\/technology\/apple-ai-news-publishers.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI partnerships<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Shortly after the FT announced its deal with OpenAI, The Information <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/as-tech-firms-prioritize-ai-in-news-dealings-other-deals-get-cut\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Google is set to pay News Corp $5-6 million per year to develop AI content as part of an existing deal through the Google News Initiative. (A News Corp spokesperson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/google-pay-up-6-mln-news-corp-new-ai-content-information-reports-2024-04-30\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reuters, \u201cWe absolutely do not have an AI content licensing deal with Google, though we do have a number of partnerships with Google across our businesses.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/petebrown.quarto.pub\/pnp-ai-partnerships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">collated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reports of confirmed deals and reported discussions in a database that we will continue to update as partnerships are pursued and formed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-1.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1445721607\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"101475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-1-1024x745.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-1-1024x745.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-1-800x582.png 800w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-1-1536x1118.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-1.png 1999w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-1.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"299314445\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"101475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-1-1024x600.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-1-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-1-800x469.png 800w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-1-1536x900.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-1.png 1936w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The current flurry of activity raises a number of questions \u2013 many of which feel like callbacks to previous episodes, and were not satisfactorily answered the first time around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To what extent are powerful technology companies picking winners (again)? On what basis are news partners chosen? How are \u201chigh quality\u201d\/\u201dreliable\u201d\/\u201dtrustworthy\u201d sources determined?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pitch deck for OpenAI\u2019s Preferred Publisher Program \u2013 a version of which was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/openai-preferred-publisher-program-deck\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leaked<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Adweek \u2013 describes the company\u2019s pursuit of \u201cselect, high-quality editorial partners.\u201d The basis upon which it is deciding which news outlets are \u201chigh-quality\u201d is unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the latest deals have been announced, it\u2019s often been left to OpenAI\u2019s news partners to self-describe their journalistic credentials, such as the \u201cfact-based, nonpartisan news content\u201d supplied by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/openai-chatgpt-associated-press-ap-f86f84c5bcc2f3b98074b38521f5f75a\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the AP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201crecent and authoritative content\u201d from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/axel-springer-partnership\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Axel Springer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201caccurate, verified, balanced news stories\u201d and \u201creliable information\u201d from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/global-news-partnerships-le-monde-and-prisa-media\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le Monde<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cin-depth, quality journalism\u201d from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/global-news-partnerships-le-monde-and-prisa-media\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prisa Media<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or \u201creliable sources\u201d of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/33328743-ba3b-470f-a2e3-f41c3a366613\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the FT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For its part, OpenAI has tended to shape its public narrative around the great benefits it claims these partnerships will bring to the public and the news industry as a whole. The deal with the FT, for example, is said to be \u201cabout finding creative and productive ways for AI to empower news organizations and journalists, and enrich the ChatGPT experience with real-time, world-class journalism for millions of people around the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The power imbalance between platforms and publishers has long led to accusations the former is able to \u201cpick winners\u201d \u2013 both through product choices and partnerships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Tow Center\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/tow_center\/platforms_and_publishers_new_research_from_the_tow_center.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">initial research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, published eight years ago, a newsroom manager from a local outlet said, \u201cThe [social media] algorithms, because they favor scale and reach, they\u2019re naturally going to favor national and international stories, and so local journalism gets deprioritized. I think we do run the risk of selecting winners in this game.\u201d The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/tow_center_reports\/platform-press-how-silicon-valley-reengineered-journalism.php#executive-summary\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">following year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a digital media executive with experience at major metro newspapers, said, \u201cI feel as if we are collateral damage in the war between these platforms. They\u2019ll give some publishers a chance to play, but not others. They\u2019ll give favorable rates and treatments to some and not to others. They are already picking winners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perks for so-called winners have fluctuated, but have included: receiving a flood of traffic or engagement on account of producing output that chimed with the whims of a platform\u2019s algorithm, being invited to the table to discuss product development or partake in testing, receiving financial incentives to partner on new or expanding publishing products, and enjoying priority access to platform personnel. More recently, they have involved direct payments or been selected to participate in programs with perks such as platform credits, training programs, and coaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ba031844-f3e3-11e9-a79c-bc9acae3b654\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FT report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the US launch of the Facebook News tab in October 2019 was headlined, \u201cFacebook picks winners and losers ahead of news page launch: Social media group offers millions to Bloomberg and Dow Jones but nothing to Reuters or AP.\u201d (The FT was among <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/news\/facebook-news-tab-upday\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the winners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> once Facebook News made its way to the UK.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One constant has been a lack of transparency around how and why certain publishers have seemingly had the ear of platform companies while others have felt shut out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no reason to think we won\u2019t be asking the same questions again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much are these deals worth to news organizations? Alternatively, when it comes to licensing deals for journalism used to train LLMs, what value are technology companies placing on news archives? (Or, from the other side, what do news outlets consider an acceptable valuation of their archives? And to what extent is the lure of short-term income so strong that they are willing to accept a sum below their valuation?) How do they differ from one organization to the next?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9227c2e1-067e-4b49-8b33-9c276edc65e3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that \u201cthere appears to be a market price evolving\u201d for news content used to train LLMs. What this is remains unknown, although the $250 million OpenAI is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/openai-news-corp-strike-deal-23f186ba\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reportedly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> paying News Corp in cash and credits over the next five years suggests deals with the most influential organizations come at a particular premium It also raises interesting questions about the implications for OpenAI\u2019s previous deals, given earlier <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/as-publishers-seek-ai-payments-ap-gets-a-first-mover-safeguard-f5a6f186\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reporting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that \u201cAssociated Press pact with OpenAI gives it the right to reset terms if another publisher gets a better deal\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms have long been reluctant to disclose details about the checks they\u2019re signing for chosen news organizations. The recipients, for their part, are usually subject to non-disclosure agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Details about the AI partnerships struck to date are similarly scarce. Away from deals with news organizations, we know from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/google-reddit-ai-partnership-a7f131c7cb4225307134ef21d3c6a708\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AP reporting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Google\u2019s deal with Reddit is valued at \u201croughly $60 million.\u201d NYU <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/about\/news-publications\/news\/2023\/august\/arthur-l--carter-journalism-institute-launches-ethics-initiative.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disclosed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that a grant from OpenAI for its Ethics and Journalism Initiative was worth $395,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to The Information, some news organizations have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/openai-offers-publishers-as-little-as-1-million-a-year?rc=voolcw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">underwhelmed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by offers from OpenAI starting at $1 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bigger numbers are occasionally touted, such as the \u201c$5 million+ partnership\u201d between OpenAI and the American Journalism Project. But once that money started to be funneled to news organizations, the figures got smaller and the specifics became more vague. A December 2023 announcement states that 13 named \u201cportfolio organizations\u201d were awarded \u201cone- to two-year grants, ranging from $25,000 to $200,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-1.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1168980885\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"101475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-1-1024x300.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-1-1024x300.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-1-800x234.png 800w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-1-1536x449.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-1.png 1914w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is any level of exclusivity built into such deals, or will news organizations have carte blanche to sell their archives to whichever technology firms are willing to write them a check?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between partnerships on tools\/technology and\/or licensing deals, are the next few years set to become an era of Microsoft\/OpenAI newsrooms and Google newsrooms? If so, what are the implications of this?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What impact, if anything, will this have on, say, the FT\u2019s relationship with Google?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Financial Times, and its consultancy arm, FT Strategies, have a long history of partnering with Google.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FT was a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutus.ft.com\/press_release\/financial-times-joins-google-on-the-launch-of-amp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">launch partner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the Google-developed Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/google-news-initiative\/introducing-subscribe-google\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe with Google<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The pair also joined forces for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutus.ft.com\/press_release\/financial-times-and-google-announce-hidden-cities-project\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hidden Cities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> project in 2015, which led to Hidden Cities: Rio, a VR <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutus.ft.com\/press_release\/financial-times-announces-vr-partnership-with-google\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">collaboration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that marked the FT\u2019s \u201cfirst major virtual reality project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FT Strategies has been a prominent part of the tech giant\u2019s European journalism program, the Digital News Initiative, and its US equivalent, the Google News Initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, Google highlighted the partnership on the first page of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/writtenevidence\/107854\/pdf\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">written evidence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the UK Parliament\u2019s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee inquiry into the sustainability of local journalism: \u201cFrom increased revenue through our search engine and advertising tools to financial support for bespoke consultancy services (such as our Subs Lab with FT Strategies, below) Google aims to provide local news publishers with the security and skills to adapt their business models and grow their revenues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More recently, FT Strategies has partnered with GNI for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/programmes.ftstrategies.com\/ai-foundation-emea\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI Foundation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/programmes.ftstrategies.com\/programmes.ftstrategies.com\/ai-launchpad\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI Launchpad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> programs in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/24982124.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net\/hubfs\/24982124\/GNI\/Hygge%20AI%20Foundation%20Explainer%202024.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deck<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the former states, \u201cDelivered in partnership with the Google News Initiative, the AI Foundation programme helps publishers who wish to explore and start acting on the opportunity that AI brings, built upon the FT\u2019s deep understanding of publishing and Google\u2019s expertise in AI.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In late April, Axel Springer provided an early model for cosying up to multiple partners, announcing a new partnership <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/2024\/04\/29\/axel-springer-and-microsoft-expand-partnership-across-advertising-ai-content-and-azure-services\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with Microsoft<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to supplement the one it formed with OpenAI <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/29\/business\/media\/media-openai-chatgpt.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">last year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image4-1.png\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"2092124623\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"101475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-101484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image4-1-971x1024.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 971px) 100vw, 971px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image4-1-971x1024.png 971w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image4-1-569x600.png 569w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image4-1-1457x1536.png 1457w, https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image4-1.png 1896w\" alt=\"\" width=\"971\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When, where, and how will news organizations disclose relationships with the technology companies from which they have received payments?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local outlet The City used OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2024\/02\/29\/chatgpt-map-stories-nyc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">map<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the New York neighborhoods covered in 2,750 of its articles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere in the article is it disclosed that the City <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theajp.org\/news-insights\/insights\/exploring-emerging-technologies-an-update-on-our-product-ai-studio\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">received<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of 13 grants of $25,000-200,000 from the American Journalism Project\u2019s Product &amp; AI Studio, which was created as part of AJP\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theajp.org\/news-insights\/announcements\/american-journalism-project-announces-new-partnership-with-openai-to-support-local-news\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">partnership<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with OpenAI, for which AJP reportedly received $5 million in cash and up to $5 million in OpenAI API credits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AP reporting on OpenAI ends with a disclaimer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/openai-voice-engine-aigenerated-clone-chatgpt-87da88d979ea5c75e98c75914740bd85\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stating<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cThe Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP\u2019s text archives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should The City have disclosed that it has received money originating from OpenAI? Or does the nature of the award and\/or its size and\/or the fact it was distributed via a third-party reduce any such obligation? By extension, when, where and how will the FT disclose its relationship when reporting on OpenAI ? And how, if at all, might the relationship impact the paper\u2019s coverage of its latest partner?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To what extent will these deals shape tech stacks and workflows? To what extent do news organizations risk short-term satisfaction translating into some form of <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5287\/ora-dx865edma\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vendor lock-in<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? To what extent can \u2013 or should \u2013\u00a0news organizations prepare for the knock-on effects of sudden shifts in providers\u2019 AI products, or the technology companies\u2019 priorities more broadly?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior examples of the latter are too plentiful to list. Some may have bitter memories of being sold on the infamous \u2013 and, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2018\/11\/29\/pivot-video-couldnt-save-mic-news-outlet-has-laid-off-most-its-staff\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in some cases<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, terminal \u2013 \u201cpivot to video\u201d. Others will recall how traffic plummeted when <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/11\/technology\/facebook-news-feed.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">friends and family<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suddenly took priority over news on Facebook. Others still will have revised their distribution in step with Google\u2019s pivot <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/introducing-accelerated-mobile-pages\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/blog\/2021\/04\/more-details-page-experience\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> AMP, or Facebook\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150513062142\/http:\/\/media.fb.com\/2015\/05\/12\/instantarticles\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">push for<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/10\/14\/meta-facebook-ending-support-instant-articles\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">abandonment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Instant Articles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In some ways, the breathless push for generative AI has hallmarks of Google\u2019s aggressive attempts to strongarm publishers into adopting a publishing format they insisted would be beneficial in an ecosystem over which they wielded huge control. As The Verge\u2019s Dave Pierce <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23711172\/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recalls<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cIn 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along.\u201d (For anyone in need of a recap of how the story ends, the subtitle of Pierce\u2019s piece states, \u201cGoogle promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The old guard have also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-ca\/company-news\/outreach-initiatives\/an-update-on-canadas-bill-c-18-and-our-search-and-news-products\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threatened<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2020\/08\/changes-to-facebooks-services-in-australia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2023\/06\/changes-to-news-availability-on-our-platforms-in-canada\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">implemented<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/news\/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blocks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on news in locations drawing up legislation they deem undesirable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2021, Facebook announced the UK launch of Facebook News, a product through which selected news organizations would receive a share of $105 million over three years. Under the headline, \u2018Facebook News Will Help Sustain Quality Journalism,\u2019 Nick Clegg, the company\u2019s VP of global affairs, explained that the relative paucity of news links surfaced by the algorithm Facebook controls was not illustrative of journalism\u2019s lack of value to Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor many people, Facebook is one of the places they find news,\u201d Clegg wrote. \u201cWhile the amount of news on Facebook is small as a proportion of the content seen overall \u2014 less than 4% of what people see in their feed are posts with links to news articles \u2014 it undoubtedly plays a significant role in the distribution of journalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the contrary, this was \u201cwhy Facebook has been working with news organizations\u2026 to figure out how it can best support the industry for the long term.\u201d Facebook News, Clegg said, \u201cis a result of those conversations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two-and-a-half years later, the company announced it would be depreciating Facebook News in the US and Australia, just as it had in the UK, France and Germany four months earlier. This time, however, the relative scarcity of news links surfaced by the algorithm Facebook controls <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">did<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> indicate journalism\u2019s lack of value to Facebook, who stated, \u201cnews makes up less than 3% of what people around the world see in their Facebook feed, and is a small part of the Facebook experience for the vast majority of people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LLMs are all the rage at the moment. It\u2019s safe to assume they won\u2019t be forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could the short-term perk of a welcome check come at the cost of longer-term problems?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OpenAI is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2024\/04\/the-financial-times-inks-new-licensing-deal-with-openai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reportedly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> getting access to the FT\u2019s paywalled content as part of the deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theoretically, this means that a reader who currently ends up on an FT article via search, opening the door to a relationship that may lead to a newsletter sign-up or subscription, may soon have their needs satisfied by OpenAI without needing to go anywhere near the FT\u2019s website. Similarly, an existing subscriber may conclude their needs can be satisfied by FT content that is freely available to them from OpenAI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What impact, if any, could this have on its subscriber churn or future conversions? If such deals could harm subscriptions, what sweeteners are necessary to mitigate those losses? Given that potential losses extend beyond the revenue of subscription fees \u2013 by limiting or removing capacity to collect user data, cultivate relationships, etc. \u2013 how is the value of any such sweeteners determined?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it too cynical to view these partnerships as a(nother?) lobbying exercise?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the more critical assessments of Google and Facebook\u2019s journalism programs <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2020\/06\/google-paying-publishers-is-more-about-pr-than-the-needs-of-the-news-industry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/893654\/the-facebook-journalism-project-is-nothing-but-a-much-needed-pr-stunt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">described<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de\/fileadmin\/user_data\/stiftung\/02_Wissenschaftsportal\/03_Publikationen\/AH103_Google_EN.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">these<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018philanthropic\u2019 initiatives as PR and\/or lobbying exercises strategically introduced as the prospect of legislation loomed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the current climate, with eyes on the New York Times\u2019 copyright case against OpenAI and the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust lawsuit against Google, similar questions arise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can \u2013\u00a0and should \u2013 the current raft of AI partnerships be interpreted as a contemporary equivalent, designed to deter powerful news organizations from (i) following the New York Times in filing lawsuits for copyright infringement, (ii) pushing governments to intervene, or (iii) participating in any future collective bargaining?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Financial Times was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/media_law\/ai-copyright-law-news-publishers-lords-committee\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">among<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the publishers that made a submission to the UK House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee\u2019s report on Large Language Models, which concluded the UK Government \u201ccannot sit on its hands\u201d while waiting for copyright case law to be established.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Per Reuters, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/news-corp-negotiations-with-ai-companies-over-content-usage-ceo-2023-09-07\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference in September:\u201dWhat you will see over time is a lot of litigation; some media companies have already begun those discussions\u2026 Personally, we\u2019re not interested in that at this stage. We\u2019re much more interested in negotiation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this didn\u2019t entirely rule out the possibility of litigation (\u201cwe\u2019re not interested\u2026 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at this stage<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c), it did seem to imply News Corp\u2019s interest in litigation was partly contingent on the outcome of negotiations, i.e. News Corp wouldn\u2019t be interested in litigation if the price is right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems, from Wall Street Journal <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/media\/openai-news-corp-strike-deal-23f186ba\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reporting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the price was around $250 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Publishers in Scandinavia have shown a willingness to band together for litigation, collective bargaining, and developing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nordicaijournalism.com\/_files\/ugd\/efd447_06c5eb91a6084cf78da840af828ce845.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ethical approaches<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to using AI in journalism. In 2021, the Danish Publishers Collective Management Organisation <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/media\/news\/publishers-eye-collective-bargaining-as-way-to-take-on-platforms\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">formed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c83d6b7f-ed19-4a90-a719-3bf4aedccdff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">take on<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Facebook and Google. Earlier this year, the Danish Rights Alliance, on behalf of the Danish Journalists\u2019 Association and Danish Media Association, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rettighedsalliancen.com\/press-release-apple-reported-to-police-by-danish-press-publishers-and-journalists\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">took legal action<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against Apple for alleged violation of the Danish Copyright Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How will the outcome of the legal wrangle over copyright between OpenAI and the New York Times impact these kinds of deals? Could the prospect of a ruling in OpenAI\u2019s favor convince some publishers that something is better than nothing?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will non-partners effectively be punished for not striking a deal?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Per the FT\u2019s announcement, the deal with OpenAI \u201callows ChatGPT to respond to questions with short summaries from FT articles, with links back to FT.com. This means that the chatbot\u2019s 100mn users worldwide can access FT reporting through ChatGPT, while providing a route back to the original source material.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OpenAI is willing to provide <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/content-partnership-with-financial-times\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201crich links\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to FT stories it cites because of this partnership. It will presumably be less willing to identify \u2013\u00a0or maybe even consider \u2013 non-partners as a source, given disputes over copyright infringement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If, unlikely as it may seem, those rich links translate into something meaningful for publishers, will FOMO increase the likelihood of other news organizations striking similar deals? Alternatively, if summaries from chatbots <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2023\/07\/google-search-generative-experience-content-creation\/674674\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decimate<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/news-publishers-see-googles-ai-search-tool-as-a-traffic-destroying-nightmare-52154074\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">search traffic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, will partnerships with AI providers take on a new appeal for otherwise reluctant publishers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What lessons have news organizations learned from their past dealings with technology companies, and will they put those learnings into practice?<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will the relationship be any less fraught?<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To what extent will news organizations\u2019 prior experience with technology companies inform their approach to potential AI partnerships?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reshaping of this relationship is something that University of Oxford researcher and Tow Center fellow Felix Simon has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21670811.2023.2287464\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">been<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/tow_center_reports\/artificial-intelligence-in-the-news.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exploring<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outlining one of the ways in which tensions are likely to emerge, Simon <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21670811.2023.2287464\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">argues<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cNews organizations have good reasons for increasingly relying on platform companies\u2019 AI\u2026 But there is no such thing as a free lunch. AI reshapes the dependency of publishers on platform companies by increasing their control over technological infrastructure, exacerbating existing dependencies in distribution, and introducing new dependencies in production, especially as generative AI is making inroads\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One school of thought <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pressgazette.co.uk\/platforms\/life-after-google-should-news-industry-embrace-amazon-and-microsoft\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">says<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> news organizations have a strong negotiating hand because AI platforms will require high quality, up-to-date information. Ingesting archives alone won\u2019t be enough. From this perspective, journalism would seem an extremely valuable commodity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, too, has certain echoes of the earlier period of courtship. Back in 2016, a senior editor interviewed for our original study warned, \u201cPublishers have more leverage than they think.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As talks ramp up and new deals emerge, we edge closer to knowing whether that proves any more prescient this time around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 3 --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&amp;aid=&amp;tid=664e7cda5234421d84dd1c595305e913&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cjr.org%2Ftow_center%2Flicensing-deals-litigation-raise-raft-of-familiar-questions-in-fraught-world-of-platforms-and-publishers.php&amp;c=9786890850262033417&amp;mkt=en-gb\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominiclevent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19471\" src=\"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/litigation-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/1\/embed?mid=1w4tN9mf5kVdBXUXTq2KvwE23NmpUzEna\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px #ffffff none;\" src=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=sc635csnrm8h9s9lq0cad6vkss@group.calendar.google.com\" name=\"myiFrame\" width=\"600px\" height=\"3px\" frameborder=\"1\" marginwidth=\"0px\" marginheight=\"0px\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dominiclevent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Business_Solicitors_London.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Dominic Levent Solicitors<\/div>\n<div>Email: Enquiries@dominiclevent.com<\/div>\n<div>Phone: 020 8347 6640<\/div>\n<div>Url: https:\/\/www.dominiclevent.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: none;\">cash, check, credit card, invoice<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>1345 High Rd<\/div>\n<div>London, London N20 9HR<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks, News Corp, the Financial Times and Dotdash Meredith became the latest news organizations to strike licensing deals with OpenAI, while Axel Springer and Informa teamed up with Microsoft. 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