Sources: Meta has signed a multiyear AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth $50M per year; the deal will run for at least three years
The OpenAI deal gives Disney a fair amount of oversight and control over how its IP is used, including a joint steering committee to monitor user creations
Walt Disney has reached an agreement with OpenAI that will make the company the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI's social video platform.
NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's “content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences”
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
Dealroom.co: content licensing and data marketplace startups like Pip Labs and ProRata have raised $215M since 2022 to help artists sell content for AI training
New crop of companies are offering artists ability to sell content to big tech firms to train AI See also Mediagazer
A TollBit analysis of 160 websites on its content licensing service finds AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search
AI companies promised publishers their AI search engines would send them more readers via referral traffic. New data shows that's not the case.
Reddit says content licensing deals with Google and OpenAI account for ~10% of its revenue but it's focused on its ad revenue business, which grew 60% YoY in Q4
Much of Reddit's $427.7 million Q4 revenues were generated by the ongoing expansion of its advertising business. — And its ad revenue as a whole grew 60% YoY — https://www.adweek.com/... Forums: B...
Reddit must continue growing its ad and content licensing revenue to justify its market valuation, which could fast-track the platform's “enshittification”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana — Essentially, Digg lost its community due to changes that favored popular content over diverse interests. See als...
A look at Calliope Networks, a content licensing company whose License to Scrape program is targeting YouTubers to strike their own AI training data agreements
Kate Knibbs / Wired : X: @alexalarga and @knibbs . LinkedIn: Dave Davis X: Alex Alarga / @alexalarga : @WIRED An interesting article picture. I imagine that for the other platforms the depiction woul...
A profile of TollBit, which has raised $7M and aims to create a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers for their content on an ongoing basis
So far though, its business model of becoming a marketplace where AI companies can pay publishers directly for their data is a complete hypothetical X: @pranavdixit and @pranavdixit See also Mediagaze...
Condé Nast agrees a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired
Publishers looking at the media landscape are likely realizing … BBC : ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI Forges Content Partnership Wit...