“Is AI the New Gold Rush? Discover How Copyright Licensing is Transforming the Creative Landscape!”
In the absence of legal clarity, licensing is racing ahead. OpenAI has signed with AP, News Corp, Time, The Atlantic, Financial Times, Axel Springer, Le Monde, and PRISA, as well as scientific and academic publishers Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and Oxford University Press and trade book publisher HarperCollins. Dozens of additional such deals reportedly exist – some confidential.
Licensing will be as crucial as litigation in developing the rules of the road for using copyrighted material in AI training. Many copyright owners consider licensing to AI platforms an urgent necessity. Some are offering simple and reasonable licenses, in the hopes that AI platform companies will find them attractive as an alternative to the “sue now, license later” strategy that the music industry followed in the file-sharing era of the late 1990s. Major record labels prevailed over Napster on appeal in 2001, and then (apart from a few small-scale experiments) did not make any significant licensing deals with third-party digital music services until Apple’s iTunes appeared in 2003.
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