How Small Publishers Could Cash In Big on the AI Royalty Revolution: The Untold Power of Collective Licensing
Opens up AI royalties for long-tail publishers
Enterprise appetite for vetted, quality content to feed private LLMs, mixed with the rise in small language models, are providing a beacon of hope for the long tail of publishers, typically cut out of any larger LLM licensing negotiations, stressed Tom West, CEO of Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS), a not-for-profit collective management organization representing U.K. publishers in collective licensing.
He said that there is an emergence of small LLMs that specialize in specific industries and topics, for example, horticulture, and therefore are on the hunt for quality specialist content for niche publishers.
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