The archive they sold
Publisher licensing deals with OpenAI, the New York Times lawsuit, the robots.txt blocking wave, and what AI-generated summaries did to referral traffic.
The archive lives here too now.
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Who Licensed What to OpenAI, and for How Much
Catalogues the known publisher licensing agreements with OpenAI — News Corp, Axel Springer, the Financial Times, the Associated Press, Le Monde, Prisa — with the disclosed or reported deal terms, dates of announcement, and what each agreement says the licensed content will be used for. A factual comparison of what is publicly known about each deal.
The New York Times v. OpenAI: What the Docket Says
Describes the complaint the New York Times filed in the Southern District of New York in December 2023, the specific copyright claims at issue, and the procedural history through the most recent documented filing.
The robots.txt Blocking Wave: What the Data Provenance Initiative Measured
Presents the Data Provenance Initiative's findings on the rate at which publishers added AI crawler restrictions to their robots.
The Traffic That Did Not Arrive: AI Summaries and Publisher Referrals
Reports on the documented decline in referral traffic to news publishers attributed to AI-generated search summaries, using named analytics firms' published data and the specific publishers and time periods cited.