Price the term and the life of the trained model separately
Disclosed AI licences run two to three years (Reddit), at least three years (News Corp and Meta) or three years (HarperCollins and Microsoft); licensing counsel recommends a perpetual right to models already trained plus a finite licence to the dataset, limited to a single model with extension for an additional fee.
Dated 11 Oct 2026Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: indicative
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“For most enterprise data licensors, the answer is a single model with the right to extend on additional fee.”
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- Does the company selling the data own it, and has someone with authority approved the sale?
- Is any of it data or content you licensed from someone else, such as purchased contact lists, research reports, stock media, fonts or design kits?
- Does the data include text, images, video or files created by others that you do not own (articles, reports, books, customer uploads, screenshots of other products)?
- Did every employee and contractor who created the code, documents or recordings sign an agreement assigning their work to the company?
- Licensed purpose and field of use
- Survival of trained models after the licence ends (perpetual model rights)
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