{ "dataset": "AI data licensing deals", "description": "Disclosed licences of data to AI companies since July 2023: licensor, licensee, content, use, term, value where disclosed, source.", "reviewed": "2026-10-17", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "covers": "our compilation of the tables", "excludes": "quotes keep their sources' terms, and article text is not covered" }, "rows": [ { "id": "2026-10-google-news-ai-pilot-new-publishers", "date": "2026-10-15", "licensor": "Axios, The Financial Times, Forbes, Post and Courier, Texas Tribune, Shaw Media, Oil City (publishers named in Google's October 2026 pilot update)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Google", "licenseeIds": [ "google" ], "content": "Google's 15 October 2026 update to its News AI pilot says more than 400 publications now take part and names Axios, CNN, The Financial Times and Forbes (global outlets) and Post and Courier, Texas Tribune, Oil City News and Shaw Media (US local publishers) among its newest partners. Google pays participating publications for delivery and use of enhanced content to develop AI features such as article overviews on Google News publisher pages and audio briefings, with attribution and links. CNN's own announcement is held separately (2026-10-cnn-google).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Paid; no amounts or contract lengths stated", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/news/news-ai-pilot-update-publishers/", "sourceLabel": "Google (The Keyword blog)", "sourceDate": "2026-10-15", "quote": "Through this licensing program, we pay participating news publications for the delivery and use of enhanced content to develop new AI features." }, { "id": "2026-07-yelp-openai", "date": "2026-07-23", "licensor": "Yelp", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "social platform", "licensee": "OpenAI (ChatGPT)", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Yelp's reviews, photos and other business information, linked from ChatGPT when OpenAI references the content; Yelp's Request a Quote feature is to follow in ChatGPT searches for local services. MediaPost reports the deal on its own date of 23 July 2026 (the page header reads 07/24/2026).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "No financial terms stated in the report", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/416762/openai-licenses-content-from-yelp-seems-to-be-bui.html", "sourceLabel": "MediaPost", "sourceDate": "2026-07-23", "quote": "On Thursday, Yelp announced a licensing agreement with OpenAI" }, { "id": "2026-10-cnn-google", "date": "2026-10-15", "licensor": "CNN", "licensorId": "cnn", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Google", "licenseeIds": [ "google" ], "content": "Expanded rights to CNN journalism for experimental AI features in Google products, under Google's news AI pilot; CNN did not name the products or say whether AI training rights are included.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Financial terms not disclosed; multiyear", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/tech/cnn-google-ai-content-deal/", "sourceLabel": "TheWrap", "sourceDate": "2026-10-15", "quote": "CNN has reached a multiyear agreement with Google that will compensate the news network for expanded use of its journalism in AI products, the company announced Thursday." }, { "id": "2026-10-massivemusic-grai", "date": "2026-10-15", "licensor": "MassiveMusic (part of Songtradr)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "music", "licensee": "GRAI", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "A dedicated opt-in dataset approved by rightsholders for training GRAI's own music foundation model, separate from a catalogue-delivery agreement for GRAI's streaming service. The training licence does not authorise downstream creative uses.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Terms not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rights-before-code-grai-partners-with-massivemusic-on-catalog-infrastructure-and-licensed-ai-training-data-302909777.html", "sourceLabel": "PR Newswire", "sourceDate": "2026-10-15", "quote": "A second agreement covers AI training: GRAI trains its model on a dedicated, opt-in dataset approved by rightsholders specifically for AI training through MassiveMusic's opt-in system." }, { "id": "2026-10-reach-google", "date": "2026-10-12", "licensor": "Reach plc (Mirror, Express, Daily Star, Manchester Evening News)", "licensorId": "reach", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Google", "licenseeIds": [ "google" ], "content": "Reach joins Google's news AI pilot, giving Google enhanced content rights to Reach's entire UK and Ireland portfolio; Google says it pays participating publications for the delivery and use of enhanced content to develop new AI features. Reach's CEO calls it a time-limited deal, and Digiday reported on 16 Oct 2026 that it understands the deal has a two-year time stamp.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": 2, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/", "sourceLabel": "Press Gazette", "sourceDate": "2026-10-12", "quote": "Reach announced it had signed one of these AI deals with Google encompassing its entire portfolio across the UK and Ireland" }, { "id": "2026-09-bennett-coleman-and-co-openai", "date": "2026-09-23", "licensor": "Bennett, Coleman and Co (The Times of India)", "licensorId": "bennett-coleman", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Content partnership between OpenAI and the publisher of The Times of India, one of two deals with India's largest newspaper groups reported the same day. Value is E4m's estimate as relayed by Press Gazette, not a stated fee.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": 5000000, "valueText": "Could be worth around $5m per year (E4m report, relayed by Press Gazette); parties did not state a figure", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "reported", "source": "https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/", "sourceLabel": "Press Gazette (citing E4m)", "sourceDate": "2026-10-12", "quote": "E4m reports that the deal with Times of India publisher Bennett, Coleman and Co could be worth around $5m per year" }, { "id": "2026-09-indian-express-group-openai", "date": "2026-09-23", "licensor": "Indian Express Group", "licensorId": "indian-express-group", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Content partnership between OpenAI and the Indian Express Group, which had joined a 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI. Value is E4m's estimate as relayed by Press Gazette, not a stated fee.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": 3000000, "valueText": "Could be worth $3m per year (E4m report, relayed by Press Gazette); parties did not state a figure", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "reported", "source": "https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/", "sourceLabel": "Press Gazette (citing E4m)", "sourceDate": "2026-10-12", "quote": "the deal with The Indian Express Group could be worth $3m per year" }, { "id": "2026-09-grabmaps-protege", "date": "2026-09-21", "licensor": "GrabMaps (Grab)", "licensorId": "grabmaps", "licensorType": "other", "licensee": "Protege (for AI developers and model builders)", "licenseeIds": [ "protege" ], "content": "Selected GrabMaps real-world data assets (imagery, road topology, points of interest and traffic context, refreshed across hundreds of cities in eight Southeast Asian markets) made available through Protege for AI training and evaluation. Protege is the intermediary; no end buyer is named.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://withprotege.ai/articles/news/protege-and-grabmaps-partner-to-bring-real-world-southeast-asian-streets-to-spatial-and-physical-ai/", "sourceLabel": "Protege and GrabMaps (joint announcement)", "sourceDate": "2026-09-21", "quote": "help make selected real-world data assets from GrabMaps available to AI developers through the Protege platform" }, { "id": "2026-09-tempus-ai-recursion-pharmaceuticals", "date": "2026-09-21", "licensor": "Tempus AI", "licensorId": "tempus-ai", "licensorType": "healthcare data", "licensee": "Recursion Pharmaceuticals", "licenseeIds": [ "recursion-pharmaceuticals" ], "content": "Extension to November 2029 of the 2023 data licence for Tempus's de-identified clinical and molecular records; discretionary fees are replaced by committed payments. Separately Recursion licenses its RNA foundation model TxFM to Tempus (no price in the release).", "use": "unstated", "termYears": 3, "valueUsd": 42000000, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Committed payments of $42 million over the next three years, replacing discretionary fees that could have totalled $84 million over two years", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.tempus.com/news/pr/tempus-and-recursion-extend-existing-data-license-agreement-and-enter-new-license-agreement-for-recursions-rna-foundation-model/", "sourceLabel": "Tempus AI", "sourceDate": "2026-09-21", "quote": "In connection with the extension of the collaboration’s committed term, the parties agreed to amend the Annual License Fees payable under the original Master Agreement, replacing discretionary license fees potentially totaling $84 million over the next two years with committed payments totaling $42 million over the next three years." }, { "id": "2026-09-village-media-openai", "date": "2026-09-17", "licensor": "Village Media", "licensorId": "village-media", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "OpenAI's first partnership with a Canadian news organisation: OpenAI provides funding, API credits and technical support for Village Media's Open Door community health navigator, and Village Media content is cited in ChatGPT. No fee figure is published.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed (funding, API credits and technical support, no figure)", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "reported", "source": "https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/", "sourceLabel": "Press Gazette", "sourceDate": "2026-10-12", "quote": "OpenAI has signed its first partnership with a Canadian news organisation, Village Media." }, { "id": "2026-09-universal-music-group-elevenlabs", "date": "2026-09-10", "licensor": "Universal Music Group", "licensorId": "universal-music-group", "licensorType": "music", "licensee": "ElevenLabs", "licenseeIds": [ "elevenlabs" ], "content": "Multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration: joint AI audio products for artists and songwriters and an AI music platform for fans, built on licensed music and artist participation. The page does not say whether models are trained on UMG recordings.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://elevenlabs.io/blog/umg", "sourceLabel": "ElevenLabs", "sourceDate": "2026-09-10", "quote": "We’ve entered a multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration with Universal Music Group (UMG)" }, { "id": "2026-07-dailymotion-protege", "date": "2026-07-16", "licensor": "Dailymotion", "licensorId": "dailymotion", "licensorType": "video library", "licensee": "Protege (for AI model builders and application developers)", "licenseeIds": [ "protege" ], "content": "Dailymotion's catalogue of roughly 40 million videos made available through the Protege platform for AI training and evaluation, for generative video, spatial and physical models. Protege is the intermediary; no end buyer is named.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://withprotege.ai/articles/news/dailymotion-protege-partnership-announcement-video/", "sourceLabel": "Protege and Dailymotion (joint announcement)", "sourceDate": "2026-07-16", "quote": "make Dailymotion's video catalog available for AI training and evaluation use through the Protege platform" }, { "id": "2026-07-nine-entertainment-microsoft", "date": "2026-07-03", "licensor": "Nine Entertainment (The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times)", "licensorId": "nine-entertainment", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Microsoft (Copilot)", "licenseeIds": [ "microsoft" ], "content": "Agreement letting Microsoft Copilot reference the text of Nine's masthead journalism, beyond paywalled previews, to ground answers, with snippets, headlines and summaries that send readers to the full story.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://news.microsoft.com/source/asia/2026/07/03/nine-microsoft-copilot-agreement/", "sourceLabel": "Microsoft Source Asia", "sourceDate": "2026-07-03", "quote": "allows Microsoft Copilot to reference the text of Nine's masthead content" }, { "id": "2026-06-seventeen-publishers-snowflake-enterprise-customers", "date": "2026-06-01", "licensor": "Seventeen publishers via Snowflake Cortex Knowledge Extensions (including Associated Press, People Inc, USA Today Network, The Washington Post)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Snowflake enterprise customers (financial institutions)", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "Real-time retrieval-augmented generation licences for companies' own internal AI tools, mixed flat-fee and usage-based, payable from the customer's Snowflake credits.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Six-figure deals (per Digiday)", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "reported", "source": "https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/", "sourceLabel": "Press Gazette (citing Digiday)", "sourceDate": "2026-06-01", "quote": "Publishers are signing “six-figure deals” via data giant Snowflake’s platform Cortex Knowledge Extensions, according to Digiday." }, { "id": "2026-04-folha-de-s-paulo-google", "date": "2026-04-10", "licensor": "Folha de S.Paulo", "licensorId": "grupo-folha-uol", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Google", "licenseeIds": [ "google" ], "content": "Access to part of Folha's news archive and a real-time feed for Gemini; Folha's first AI commercial agreement.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "reported", "source": "https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/", "sourceLabel": "Press Gazette", "sourceDate": "2026-04-10", "quote": "The Google deal includes access to part of Folha’s news archive and to a real-time feed so Gemini users can be served up-to-date information." }, { "id": "2026-04-kobalt-udio", "date": "2026-04-09", "licensor": "Kobalt", "licensorId": "kobalt", "licensorType": "music", "licensee": "Udio", "licenseeIds": [ "udio" ], "content": "Licensing agreement between the music publisher Kobalt and Udio, after Udio's earlier settlements and licences with Universal (October 2025), Warner (November 2025) and Merlin (January 2026). Dated before 1 June 2026: added because the ledger's Udio row dated 20 July 2026 lumps four separate licences by the date of Sony's lawsuit.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/after-universal-warner-and-merlin-deals-now-udio-inks-licensing-agreement-with-kobalt/", "sourceLabel": "Music Business Worldwide", "sourceDate": "2026-04-09", "quote": "Udio has signed a licensing agreement with Kobalt" }, { "id": "2026-10-wiserbrand-com-any-buyer", "date": "2026-10-11", "licensor": "WiserBrand.com (Datarade listing)", "licensorId": "wiserbrand", "licensorType": "data marketplace", "licensee": "Any buyer (marketplace listing)", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "Real call-center conversation speech data for ASR and voice AI listed on the Datarade marketplace; seller list price.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Marketplace starting price", "unitPriceText": "Starts at $25 per hour", "basis": "stated", "source": "https://datarade.ai/data-categories/speech-data/datasets", "sourceLabel": "Datarade", "sourceDate": "2026-10-11", "quote": "Audio Data & Speech Datasets | Real Call Center Conversations for ASR & Voice AI by WiserBrand.com 5.0 Available in USA Free sample preview API available Starts at $25 / hour" }, { "id": "2026-10-nexdata-any-buyer", "date": "2026-10-11", "licensor": "Nexdata (Datarade listing)", "licensorId": "nexdata", "licensorType": "data marketplace", "licensee": "Any buyer (marketplace listing)", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "20,000-hour casual conversation and monologue speech dataset listed on the Datarade marketplace; seller list price per purchase.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Marketplace starting price", "unitPriceText": "Starts at $20,000 per purchase (20,000-hour dataset)", "basis": "stated", "source": "https://datarade.ai/data-categories/speech-data/datasets", "sourceLabel": "Datarade", "sourceDate": "2026-10-11", "quote": "Real-world Casual Conversation and Monologue Speech Data | 20,000 Hours | Spontaneous Speech |Audio Data| Text-to-Speech Data by Nexdata Available in USA UK Germany France Italy and 59 more countries API available Starts at $20,000 / purchase" }, { "id": "2026-10-companies-selling-operational-data-micro1", "date": "2026-10-09", "licensor": "Companies selling operational data (micro1 Company Data Partnerships)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "other", "licensee": "micro1", "licenseeIds": [ "micro1" ], "content": "Program to buy and license de-identified operational data (SOPs, knowledge bases, CRM data, project histories, decision records) to build RL environments; financed by Citi and Hercules Capital.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": 1000000000, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "$1bn to be spent over the next 12 months (program budget, not one deal), financed with capital from Citi and Hercules Capital, whose size neither micro1 nor the press states. A $5,000,000 referral programme (16 Jun 2026) sits beside it.", "unitPriceText": "Published tiers on micro1's data-partnerships page: $100k+ (qualified enterprise data partnerships); $500k+ (large-scale operational datasets or ongoing participation across multiple teams); $1M+ (highly unique, proprietary operational data). The Next Web reported the same tiers on 9 Oct 2026.", "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.micro1.ai/blog/micro1-commits-1b-to-enterprise-data-acquisition", "sourceLabel": "micro1 (company blog)", "sourceDate": "2026-10-09", "quote": "Today micro1 is announcing a commitment to spend $1 billion over the next 12 months acquiring and licensing enterprise operational data through our Company Data Partnerships program. ... micro1 is financing this initiative through capital provided by Citi and Hercules Capital." }, { "id": "2026-09-failed-startups-turing", "date": "2026-09-14", "licensor": "Failed startups (codebases)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "code/Q&A", "licensee": "Turing", "licenseeIds": [ "turing" ], "content": "Five to ten failed-startup codebases bought for AI training data.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Five to ten codebases bought", "unitPriceText": "Average in the tens of thousands of dollars per codebase", "basis": "stated", "source": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/micro1-tries-to-beat-googles-bid-to-buy-bankrupt-spirit-airlines-data-for-12-5-million-highlighting-value-of-data-to-ai-companies/", "sourceLabel": "Fortune", "sourceDate": "2026-09-14", "quote": "Jonathan Siddharth, the CEO of Turing, which provides human experts and training data to AI developers, told The Information that his company had bought five to ten failed-startup codebases, paying an average in the tens of thousands of dollars for each." }, { "id": "2026-09-believe-suno", "date": "2026-09-08", "licensor": "Believe (with TuneCore)", "licensorId": "believe", "licensorType": "music", "licensee": "Suno", "licenseeIds": [ "suno" ], "content": "Licensed data from distributor Believe used to develop Suno v6. Suno announced the partnership with Believe and TuneCore, Believe's platform for self-releasing artists, on 8 Sep 2026; TechCrunch reported the v6 launch on 9 Sep.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/suno-replaces-its-ai-models-with-a-new-one-trained-on-licensed-music-as-copyright-suits-pile-up/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2026-09-09", "quote": "AI music model maker Suno on Wednesday unveiled a new model family called Suno v6, which it says was developed using licensed data from music labels and distributors such as Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe." }, { "id": "2026-08-sony-music-warner-music-group-universal-music-group-stability-ai", "date": "2026-08-25", "licensor": "Sony Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "music", "licensee": "Stability AI", "licenseeIds": [ "stability-ai" ], "content": "Catalogs licensed for training as part of Stability AI's Series B, in which the three majors invested (TechCrunch). Stability's own announcement (25 Aug 2026) names Electronic Arts as a fourth backer alongside Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group and puts total funding at $232M; the $76 million round size rests on TechCrunch alone, as Stability's page does not state it.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Licences granted alongside a $76 million funding round (round size, not a licence fee)", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/sean-parker-is-rebuilding-stability-ai-around-music/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2026-10-02", "quote": "Toward that end, in late August, the company announced $76 million in funding from, among others, Sony, Warner, and Universal, which also licensed their catalogs for training as part of the deal." }, { "id": "2026-08-spirit-airlines-google", "date": "2026-08-14", "licensor": "Spirit Airlines (bankruptcy estate)", "licensorId": "spirit-airlines", "licensorType": "other", "licensee": "Google", "licenseeIds": [ "google" ], "content": "Purchase of de-identified internal business data (employee emails, Teams messages, spreadsheets, calendars, marketing and operations data; passenger records excluded) for product development and AI training. Still pending as of 14 Oct 2026: the consumer privacy ombudsman recommended approval on 5 Oct, and on 9 Oct the sale hearing was adjourned again, to 6 Nov 2026 (docket summary by Stretto, In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.). On 8 Oct about 120 members of Congress asked Spirit and Google to pause the sale over employee data. Mercor is the alternate bidder at $7.5 million; micro1 filed a notice of intent to submit a competing bid (ECF 1556), reported at $12.5 million, though the 14 Oct docket summary says the notice states no amount.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": 10000000, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "$10 million winning bid at the 14 Aug 2026 auction; not yet approved: the sale hearing moved to 6 Nov 2026, the consumer privacy ombudsman supports the sale, micro1 filed notice of a competing bid, and Mercor stays the alternate bidder at $7.5 million", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/08/18/google-to-buy-spirit-airlines-business-data-for-10-million", "sourceLabel": "The Star (Reuters report)", "sourceDate": "2026-08-17", "quote": "Alphabet's Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans to use the data for product development and training its AI models." }, { "id": "2026-08-bmg-suno", "date": "2026-08-12", "licensor": "BMG", "licensorId": "bmg", "licensorType": "music", "licensee": "Suno", "licenseeIds": [ "suno" ], "content": "Licensed data for Suno v6, which Suno says is not trained on the data used for earlier versions.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/suno-replaces-its-ai-models-with-a-new-one-trained-on-licensed-music-as-copyright-suits-pile-up/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2026-09-09", "quote": "Suno settled with Warner Music Group last year and struck a deal with BMG last month." }, { "id": "2026-07-kobalt-merlin-believe-and-the-national-music-publishers-association-udio", "date": "2026-07-20", "licensor": "Merlin, Believe and the National Music Publishers' Association", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "music", "licensee": "Udio", "licenseeIds": [ "udio" ], "content": "Training licences Udio signed (besides UMG and Warner) with Merlin, Believe and the National Music Publishers' Association, three separate licensors, as cited in Sony's second lawsuit against Udio. Dated 20 Jul 2026, the day that suit was filed, not the day of the licences: Merlin's was in January 2026 (Music Business Worldwide); the Believe and NMPA dates were not found. 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Under the partnership, Getty Images’ licensed content libraries will appear across OpenAI search and discovery experiences within ChatGPT." }, { "id": "2026-06-speechdata-ai-any-buyer", "date": "2026-06-18", "licensor": "SpeechData.ai", "licensorId": "speechdata-ai", "licensorType": "data marketplace", "licensee": "Any buyer (catalog pricing)", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "Off-the-shelf conversational speech datasets in 60+ languages (500 to 2,000 hours each, documented consent chain). 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He noted the company currently has an annual run-rate revenue of $40 million and has so far paid out $15 million to its contributors." }, { "id": "2026-04-john-wiley-and-sons-iqvia", "date": "2026-04-30", "licensor": "John Wiley & Sons", "licensorId": "wiley", "licensorType": "academic publisher", "licensee": "IQVIA, OpenEvidence, Other corporate customers", "licenseeIds": [ "iqvia", "openevidence" ], "content": "AGGREGATE: Wiley AI revenue for fiscal 2026 across all AI licensing customers; lifetime AI revenue above $110 million.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": 49000000, "valueText": "$49 million AI revenue in FY2026 (+23%); lifetime AI revenue over $110 million", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000162828026043447/ex991fy26q4.htm", "sourceLabel": "John Wiley & Sons (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1)", "sourceDate": "2026-06-16", "quote": "Delivered $49 million of AI revenue (+23%) with recurring revenue rapidly scaling; appointed Chief AI and Data Analytics Officer; early lead in life sciences and healthcare AI with landmark partnerships and corporate customer signings; lifetime AI revenue surpassed $110 million" }, { "id": "2026-04-defunct-startups-undisclosed-ai-companies", "date": "2026-04-17", "licensor": "Defunct startups (via SimpleClosure)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "data marketplace", "licensee": "Undisclosed AI companies", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "Workplace archives (emails, Slack messages and similar) of shut-down startups sold or licensed for AI training (RL environments); nearly 100 deals in a year.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Nearly 100 deals in the past year, as of April 2026. Newer count: over 150 deals, with 47% of SimpleClosure's deals now including code or data sales (MIT Technology Review, 13 Oct 2026; market record 2026-10-simpleclosure-intermediary).", "unitPriceText": "$10,000 to $100,000 per company", "basis": "reported", "source": "https://gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-email-archives-to-train-ai-2000747916", "sourceLabel": "Gizmodo", "sourceDate": "2026-04-17", "quote": "Forbes reports that over the past year, SimpleClosure has processed nearly 100 of these deals, with payouts ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per company." }, { "id": "2026-03-getty-images-undisclosed-major-social-platform", "date": "2026-03-16", "licensor": "Getty Images", "licensorId": "getty-images", "licensorType": "stock media", "licensee": "Undisclosed major social platform, Undisclosed large AI company", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "Two multiyear licences: display rights to Getty creative and editorial content for a social platform, and use of Getty data and creative content for an AI company. 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[...] The deal will run for at least three years" }, { "id": "2026-02-publisher-content-marketplace-publishers-microsoft", "date": "2026-02-04", "licensor": "Publisher Content Marketplace publishers (co-designed with AP, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, Vox Media, USA Today, others, per Publishers Weekly)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Microsoft", "licenseeIds": [ "microsoft" ], "content": "Microsoft Publisher Content Marketplace: publishers set licensing and usage terms for content licensed for AI grounding; Copilot is the first buyer.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Usage-based; publisher-set pricing; Microsoft commission undisclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/04/microsoft-publisher-content-marketplace-ai-licensing-xcxwbn/", "sourceLabel": "WinBuzzer", "sourceDate": "2026-02-04", "quote": "Publishers can also establish their own pricing models, choose specific AI companies as partners, and define usage parameters for their content. Microsoft takes a commission on transactions but has not disclosed the exact percentage." }, { "id": "2025-12-the-walt-disney-company-openai", "date": "2025-12-11", "licensor": "The Walt Disney Company", "licensorId": "walt-disney", "licensorType": "other", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Three-year licence of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters for Sora and ChatGPT Images, with about one year of exclusivity (per Disney's CEO); Disney also invests in OpenAI.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": 3, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "No licence fee disclosed; Disney makes a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI (money flows to OpenAI, not a licence payment)", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/disney-signs-deal-with-openai-to-allow-sora-to-generate-ai-videos-featuring-its-characters/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2025-12-11", "quote": "The Walt Disney Company announced on Thursday that it has signed a three-year partnership with OpenAI that will bring its iconic characters to the company’s Sora AI video generator. 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summaries may lead to fewer clicks on news articles, publications participating in the commercial pilot program will receive direct payments from Google, which could make up for the potential decrease in traffic to their sites." }, { "id": "2025-12-usa-today-meta", "date": "2025-12-05", "licensor": "USA Today", "licensorId": "usa-today", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Meta", "licenseeIds": [ "meta" ], "content": "Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven announced together).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Terms not publicly disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/12/05/meta-strikes-multiple-ai-deals-with-news-publishers/", "sourceLabel": "BNN Bloomberg", "sourceDate": "2025-12-05", "quote": "Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday" }, { "id": "2025-12-people-inc-meta", "date": "2025-12-05", "licensor": "People Inc.", "licensorId": "people-inc", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Meta", "licenseeIds": [ "meta" ], "content": "Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven announced together).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Terms not publicly disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/12/05/meta-strikes-multiple-ai-deals-with-news-publishers/", "sourceLabel": "BNN Bloomberg", "sourceDate": "2025-12-05", "quote": "Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday" }, 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"licensee": "Meta", "licenseeIds": [ "meta" ], "content": "Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven announced together).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Terms not publicly disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/12/05/meta-strikes-multiple-ai-deals-with-news-publishers/", "sourceLabel": "BNN Bloomberg", "sourceDate": "2025-12-05", "quote": "Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday" }, { "id": "2025-12-the-daily-caller-meta", "date": "2025-12-05", "licensor": "The Daily Caller", "licensorId": "daily-caller", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Meta", "licenseeIds": [ "meta" ], "content": "Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven announced together).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Terms not publicly disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/12/05/meta-strikes-multiple-ai-deals-with-news-publishers/", "sourceLabel": "BNN Bloomberg", "sourceDate": "2025-12-05", "quote": "Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday" }, { "id": "2025-12-washington-examiner-meta", "date": "2025-12-05", "licensor": "Washington Examiner", "licensorId": "washington-examiner", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Meta", "licenseeIds": [ "meta" ], "content": "Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven announced together).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Terms not publicly disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/12/05/meta-strikes-multiple-ai-deals-with-news-publishers/", "sourceLabel": "BNN Bloomberg", "sourceDate": "2025-12-05", "quote": "Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday" }, { "id": "2025-12-le-monde-meta", "date": "2025-12-05", "licensor": "Le Monde", "licensorId": "le-monde", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Meta", "licenseeIds": [ "meta" ], "content": "Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven announced together).", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Terms not publicly disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2025/12/05/meta-strikes-multiple-ai-deals-with-news-publishers/", "sourceLabel": "BNN Bloomberg", "sourceDate": "2025-12-05", "quote": "Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday" }, { "id": "2025-12-norwegian-press-publishers-national-library-of-norway", "date": "2025-12", "licensor": "Norwegian press publishers (MBL members, via Kopinor)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "National Library of Norway (Norwegian government)", "licenseeIds": [ "national-library-of-norway" ], "content": "Government agreement for copyrighted Norwegian press material (rolling cutoff up to one year before a model's publication) to train and publicly release Norwegian language models.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, 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Regular, unused content from platforms like YouTube or TikTok fetches $1-2 per minute." }, { "id": "2024-12-informa-several-leading-ai-technology-companies", "date": "2024-12-31", "licensor": "Informa (Taylor & Francis)", "licensorId": "informa-taylor-francis", "licensorType": "academic publisher", "licensee": "Several leading AI technology companies (Microsoft among them)", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "AGGREGATE: Taylor & Francis archive data and content licensed for LLM training in 2024 (all partners); Informa expected it not to repeat to the same degree in 2025.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": 75000000, "valueText": "Over $75m in revenue in 2024", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.informa.com/globalassets/documents/investor-relations/2026/informa-annual-report-2025-ceo-review.pdf", "sourceLabel": "Informa PLC", "sourceDate": "2026-04-14", "quote": "In 2024, we moved quickly on the opportunity to partner with several leading AI technology companies, providing access to certain archive Taylor & Francis data and content for training large language models. This delivered additional royalties for authors and generated over $75m in revenue in that year" }, { "id": "2024-11-harpercollins-microsoft", "date": "2024-11", "licensor": "HarperCollins", "licensorId": "harpercollins", "licensorType": "book publisher", "licensee": "Microsoft", "licenseeIds": [ "microsoft" ], "content": "Select backlist nonfiction titles, author opt-in, for training an unnamed AI model; output capped at 200 consecutive words or 5% of a book. Buyer identified by Bloomberg.", "use": "training", "termYears": 3, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": "$5,000 per nonfiction book, split evenly ($2,500 author, $2,500 HarperCollins)", "basis": "reported", "source": "https://www.eweek.com/news/harpercollins-books-train-microsoft-ai-models/", "sourceLabel": "eWeek", "sourceDate": "2024-12-07", "quote": "Microsoft signed a three-year deal with Harper Collins to train an as-yet-unnamed AI model on the major publisher’s catalog. According to Bloomberg, the terms of the deal offered $5,000 per nonfiction book, split evenly between the author and HarperCollins." }, { "id": "2024-10-reuters-meta", "date": "2024-10-25", "licensor": "Reuters", "licensorId": "reuters", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Meta", "licenseeIds": [ "meta" ], "content": "Multi-year licence: Reuters reporting used by Meta AI to answer news questions, with links to Reuters stories; training use unclear.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Dollar value not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/25/meta-inks-multiyear-ai-content-licensing-deal-reuters/", "sourceLabel": "SiliconANGLE", "sourceDate": "2024-10-25", "quote": "Axios revealed the agreement this morning. Meta and Reuters subsequently confirmed the news without disclosing the deal’s terms." }, { "id": "2024-10-reuters-axel-springer-hearst-magazines-usa-today-network-financial-times", "date": "2024-10-01", "licensor": "Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, USA Today Network, Financial Times", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Microsoft", "licenseeIds": [ "microsoft" ], "content": "Authorized content for Copilot Daily news summaries (US and UK at launch); five separate publisher arrangements.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Microsoft won't reveal payments or terms", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/microsoft-starts-paying-publishers-for-content-in-copilot/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-10-01", "quote": "Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, USA Today Network, and The Financial Times are signed on for Copilot Daily, which is only available in the U.S. and U.K. at launch. Microsoft won’t reveal how much it’s paying publishers, nor the other terms of the arrangements" }, { "id": "2024-10-hearst-openai", "date": "2024-10", "licensor": "Hearst", "licensorId": "hearst", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Stories from Hearst newspapers and magazines (San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE and others) surfaced with citations and links.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/chatgpt-a-2024-timeline-of-updates-to-openais-text-generating-chatbot/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-12-31", "quote": "OpenAI struck a content deal with Hearst, the newspaper and magazine publisher known for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others." }, { "id": "2024-09-gedi-openai", "date": "2024-09-26", "licensor": "GEDI", "licensorId": "gedi", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Italian-language content from La Repubblica, La Stampa and other GEDI outlets for ChatGPT and SearchGPT, starting from model training.", "use": "both", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.punto-informatico.it/gedi-openai-chatgpt/", "sourceLabel": "Punto Informatico", "sourceDate": "2024-09-26", "quote": "Vale a dire che gli articoli pubblicati su La Repubblica, La Stampa e sugli altri portali online controllati potranno essere oggetto dell’attività del chatbot, a partire dalla fase di addestramento dei modelli sui quali poggia il servizio." }, { "id": "2024-09-lionsgate-runway", "date": "2024-09-18", "licensor": "Lionsgate", "licensorId": "lionsgate", "licensorType": "video library", "licensee": "Runway", "licenseeIds": [ "runway" ], "content": "Lionsgate's proprietary film and TV catalog (more than 20,000 titles) used to train a custom Runway video model for Lionsgate.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://runwayml.com/news/runway-partners-with-lionsgate", "sourceLabel": "Runway", "sourceDate": "2024-09-18", "quote": "Lionsgate and Runway have entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership centered around the creation and training of a new AI model, customized on Lionsgate’s proprietary catalog." }, { "id": "2024-09-john-wiley-and-sons-undisclosed-second-large-tech-company", "date": "2024-09-05", "licensor": "John Wiley & Sons", "licensorId": "wiley", "licensorType": "academic publisher", "licensee": "Undisclosed second large tech company", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "Second GenAI content rights project; $17 million recognized in Q1 FY2025.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": 21000000, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "$21 million content rights project; $17 million realized in Q1 FY2025", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000186/q125earningspresentation.htm", "sourceLabel": "John Wiley & Sons (SEC Form 8-K exhibit)", "sourceDate": "2024-09-05", "quote": "Executed a second content rights project valued at $21 million; $17 million realized in Q1" }, { "id": "2024-08-cond-nast-openai", "date": "2024-08-20", "licensor": "Condé Nast", "licensorId": "conde-nast", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Multi-year deal: stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit, Wired surfaced in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. TechCrunch (15 Jan 2025) reports Condé Nast agreed to let licensees train on its archives.", "use": "both", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/chatgpt-a-2024-timeline-of-updates-to-openais-text-generating-chatbot/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-12-31", "quote": "As part of the new deal, OpenAI will surface stories from Condé Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT." }, { "id": "2024-08-oxford-university-press-undisclosed-llm-developers", "date": "2024-08-05", "licensor": "Oxford University Press", "licensorId": "oxford-university-press", "licensorType": "academic publisher", "licensee": "Undisclosed LLM developers", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "OUP confirmed AI partnerships with companies developing large language models; terms and partners not named.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/08/05/256559/wiley-oup-confirm-ai-partnerships/", "sourceLabel": "Books+Publishing", "sourceDate": "2024-08-05", "quote": "In the UK, the Bookseller reports that academic publishers Wiley and Oxford University Press (OUP) have confirmed artificial intelligence (AI) partnerships, following the recent news that Taylor & Francis has sold access to its authors’ research as part of an AI partnership with Microsoft." }, { "id": "2024-07-perplexity-publishers-program-launch-partners-perplexity", "date": "2024-07-30", "licensor": "Perplexity Publishers' Program launch partners (Automattic, Der Spiegel, Entrepreneur, Fortune, The Texas Tribune, TIME)", "licensorId": null, "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "Perplexity", "licenseeIds": [ "perplexity" ], "content": "Multi-year revenue-share deals: publishers share ad revenue when their content is cited, plus API and Enterprise Pro access.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Ad revenue share; split not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/30/perplexitys-plan-to-share-ad-revenue-with-outlets-cited-by-its-ai-chatbot", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-07-30", "quote": "Perplexity’s first batch of publishing partners include Automattic, Der Spiegel, Entrepreneur, Fortune, The Texas Tribune and TIME. As part of the multi-year deals, the publishers will get access to Perplexity’s APIs and developer support so they can create their own custom answer engines on their sites." }, { "id": "2024-07-informa-undisclosed-ai-technology-company", "date": "2024-07-25", "licensor": "Informa (Taylor & Francis)", "licensorId": "informa-taylor-francis", "licensorType": "academic publisher", "licensee": "Undisclosed AI technology company", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "Second Taylor & Francis AI technology partnership, in addition to Microsoft.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://thebookseller.com/news/taylor-francis-set-to-make-58m-from-ai-in-2024-as-it-reveals-second-partnership", "sourceLabel": "The Bookseller", "sourceDate": "2024-07-25", "quote": "Taylor & Francis has a second AI technology partnership agreement already in place in addition to Microsoft." }, { "id": "2024-06-time-openai", "date": "2024-06-27", "licensor": "TIME", "licensorId": "time", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Multi-year partnership bringing TIME's modern and archival content (101 years) to ChatGPT.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/chatgpt-a-2024-timeline-of-updates-to-openais-text-generating-chatbot/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-12-31", "quote": "OpenAI and TIME announced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the magazine’s content, both modern and archival, to ChatGPT." }, { "id": "2024-06-john-wiley-and-sons-undisclosed-large-tech-company", "date": "2024-06-13", "licensor": "John Wiley & Sons", "licensorId": "wiley", "licensorType": "academic publisher", "licensee": "Undisclosed large tech company", "licenseeIds": [], "content": "GenAI content rights project (backlist content) for training large language models.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": 23000000, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "$23 million content rights project", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714024000104/wly-2024430xex991.htm", "sourceLabel": "John Wiley & Sons (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1)", "sourceDate": "2024-06-13", "quote": "Fourth Quarter Revenue of $170 million was up 18% as reported and at constant currency driven by a $23 million content rights project for training GenAI large language models" }, { "id": "2024-06-shutterstock-reka-ai", "date": "2024-06-04", "licensor": "Shutterstock", "licensorId": "shutterstock", "licensorType": "stock media", "licensee": "Reka AI", "licenseeIds": [ "reka-ai" ], "content": "Licence of Shutterstock visual media to LLM startup Reka AI.", "use": "training", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/shutterstocks-ai-licensing-business-generated-104-million", "sourceLabel": "Bloomberg Law", "sourceDate": "2024-06-04", "quote": "Shutterstock’s latest deal was announced Tuesday with Reka AI, a startup that makes large language models" }, { "id": "2024-05-vox-media-openai", "date": "2024-05-29", "licensor": "Vox Media", "licensorId": "vox-media", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Licensing and product partnership: current content used to generate ChatGPT responses with citations.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/chatgpt-a-2024-timeline-of-updates-to-openais-text-generating-chatbot/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-12-31", "quote": "Both agreements allow OpenAI to use the publishers’ current content to generate responses in ChatGPT, which will feature citations to relevant articles." }, { "id": "2024-05-the-atlantic-openai", "date": "2024-05-29", "licensor": "The Atlantic", "licensorId": "the-atlantic", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "Licensing and product partnership: current content used to generate ChatGPT responses with citations.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/31/chatgpt-a-2024-timeline-of-updates-to-openais-text-generating-chatbot/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-12-31", "quote": "Both agreements allow OpenAI to use the publishers’ current content to generate responses in ChatGPT, which will feature citations to relevant 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"licensorId": "informa-taylor-francis", "licensorType": "academic publisher", "licensee": "Microsoft", "licenseeIds": [ "microsoft" ], "content": "Non-exclusive access to Informa's advanced learning content and data; Informa also gets Microsoft AI tools. 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Adweek reports a fixed annual component plus a variable component to be calculated later.", "use": "unstated", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": 16000000, "valueText": "At least about $16 million per year (fixed component only; variable component additional), per Adweek's reading of IAC financial documents", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "reported", "source": "https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-dotdash-meredith-licensing-payment/", "sourceLabel": "Adweek", "sourceDate": "2024-11-18", "quote": "The artificial intelligence firm OpenAI is paying the digital media company Dotdash Meredith a minimum of around $16 million per year to license its content, according to public financial documents from IAC, the parent company of Dotdash Meredith." }, { "id": "2024-04-financial-times-openai", "date": "2024-04-29", "licensor": "Financial Times", "licensorId": "financial-times", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "FT journalism for training AI models and for attributed summaries, quotes and links in ChatGPT; 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The market rate for text is $0.001 per word, she added." }, { "id": "2024-03-le-monde-openai", "date": "2024-03-13", "licensor": "Le Monde", "licensorId": "le-monde", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "French (Le Monde) and Spanish (Prisa: El País, Cinco Días, As, El Huffpost) news for ChatGPT summaries with attribution and for OpenAI training data.", "use": "both", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/13/are-openais-deals-with-publishers-edging-out-the-competition/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-03-13", "quote": "OpenAI on Wednesday announced that it signed contracts with Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and Spanish news content to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot." }, { "id": "2024-03-prisa-media-openai", "date": "2024-03-13", "licensor": "Prisa Media", "licensorId": "prisa-media", "licensorType": "news publisher", "licensee": "OpenAI", "licenseeIds": [ "openai" ], "content": "French (Le Monde) and Spanish (Prisa: El País, Cinco Días, As, El Huffpost) news for ChatGPT summaries with attribution and for OpenAI training data.", "use": "both", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Not disclosed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/13/are-openais-deals-with-publishers-edging-out-the-competition/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-03-13", "quote": "OpenAI on Wednesday announced that it signed contracts with Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and Spanish news content to OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot." }, { "id": "2024-02-stack-overflow-google", "date": "2024-02-29", "licensor": "Stack Overflow", "licensorId": "stack-overflow", "licensorType": "code/Q&A", "licensee": "Google", "licenseeIds": [ "google" ], "content": "OverflowAPI access: Stack Overflow data used to enrich Gemini for Google Cloud and to show validated answers in the Google Cloud console; non-exclusive.", "use": "display/grounding", "termYears": null, "valueUsd": null, "annualUsd": null, "valueText": "Financial terms not discussed", "unitPriceText": null, "basis": "stated", "source": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/google-brings-stack-overflows-knowledge-base-to-gemini/", "sourceLabel": "TechCrunch", "sourceDate": "2024-02-29", "quote": "While Google and Stack Overflow aren’t discussing the financial terms of this partnership, it’s worth noting that this is not an exclusive partnership." }, { "id": "2024-02-reddit-google", "date": "2024-02-22", "licensor": "Reddit", "licensorId": "reddit", "licensorType": "social platform", "licensee": "Google", "licenseeIds": [ "google" ], "content": "Real-time, structured Reddit content via the Reddit Data API for training and display in Google products; Reddit uses Google Vertex AI. 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(SEC Form 424B4 prospectus)", "sourceDate": "2024-03-21", "quote": "In January 2024, we entered into certain data licensing arrangements with an aggregate contract value of $203.0 million and terms ranging from two to three years. 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