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Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!

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Associated Press: Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday. “Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary. The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed up AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and France’s […]

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Associated Press: Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday

Associated Press: Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday. “Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companie…

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Cloudflare acquired Human Native, which licenses web content to AI developers, plus web framework Astro. Combined with their control of 25% of internet traffic, this creates a pipeline from content creation to AI training data licensing. The company positions this as protecting creators, but it consolidates significant power over how web content becomes AI training material.

#AI #WebInfrastructure #ContentLicensing

https://www.implicator.ai/cloudflare-wants-to-build-napster-for-ai-except-this-time-everyone-gets-paid/

Cloudflare Wants to Build Napster for AI, Except This Time Everyone Gets Paid

Cloudflare acquires Human Native and Astro in back-to-back deals, positioning itself as the middleman between publishers and AI companies seeking licensed training data.

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CNBC: Getty Images stock falls following deal with Perplexity AI. “Shares of Getty Images closed down more than 6% on Friday after the company announced that it struck a multi‑year licensing agreement with Perplexity AI. Perplexity will be able to display creative and editorial content from Getty Images through its AI-powered search tools as part of the deal, according to a release.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/cnbc-getty-images-stock-falls-following-deal-with-perplexity-ai/

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7/ But here’s the irony...

Google still depends on quality journalism to fuel its AI.

Now it’s seeking licensing deals with publishers—after years of avoiding them.

#ContentLicensing #AITraining #MediaEthics #NewsSources

Baltimore Banner: Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models. “The Johns Hopkins University will license its books to train proprietary large language models, an advanced form of artificial intelligence that generates human-like language, the school’s publishing division announced this week. Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/02/baltimore-banner-johns-hopkins-university-press-will-license-its-authors-books-to-train-ai-model/

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Mashable: Google is reportedly pursuing AI licensing deals with news publishers. “According to Bloomberg, Google is reportedly preparing to launch a ‘pilot project initially with about 20 national news outlets,’ where the participants would license their content for Google’s AI tools. There isn’t much detail beyond the initial report, but it sounds similar to the strategy that OpenAI has […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/27/mashable-google-is-reportedly-pursuing-ai-licensing-deals-with-news-publishers/

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Deadline: Chinese AI Video Generator Vidu Strikes IP Deal For Animated Series ‘Journey To The West: Legends Of The Monkey King’. “Chinese AI video generator Vidu has signed an IP deal for 1999 animated series Journey To The West: Legends of the Monkey King allowing the use of the show’s aesthetic and images in a new tool it is currently rolling out.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/chinese-ai-video-generator-vidu-strikes-ip-deal-for-animated-series-journey-to-the-west-legends-of-the-monkey-king-deadline/

Chinese AI Video Generator Vidu Strikes IP Deal For Animated Series ‘Journey To The West: Legends Of The Monkey King’ (Deadline) | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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