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Publishers Negotiate AI Content Licensing Marketplaces
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At Digiday's Publishing Summit in Vail on Monday, People Inc. CIO Jon Roberts described rising AI content-licensing marketplaces and his company's deals with OpenAI, Meta (multi-year access) and Microsoft (pay-per-use). He said aggressive bot-blocking and permissioned access underpin marketplace economics, which remain unproven, and urged publishers to provide structured, rights-cleared content to improve AI output quality and monetize usage.
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