Know the market split before an intermediary takes a share
Created by Humans pays authors 80 percent; the Authors Guild calls 75 to 85 percent to the author fair and objects to academic presses offering 25 percent; HarperCollins' Microsoft deal paid $5,000 per title split evenly; Perplexity sends 80 percent of Comet Plus revenue to publishers.
Dated 26 Aug 2025Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: strong
“It pays 80 percent of proceeds to the author”
Jane Friedman: Created by Humans officially launches, checked 15 Jan 2025
Authors Guild: AI licensing for authors, who owns the rights and what is a fair split, checked 12 Dec 2024
Everything read from this source (2)Archived copy, 7 Sep 2026
eWeek: HarperCollins books to train Microsoft AI models, checked 7 Dec 2024
Shelly Palmer: Perplexity will pay publishers, checked 26 Aug 2025
- Share of AI licensing income that some academic presses offer their authors per title, as reported by the Authors Guild (presses not named)
- HarperCollins to Microsoft: 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.
- Price the term and the life of the trained model separately
- Term
- Participating publishers (Comet Plus) to Perplexity: Comet Plus ($5 per month): publishers paid when Perplexity uses licensed news content; pool for the first phase.
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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