Content licensing

Cashmere is infrastructure between publishers and AI companies: publishers set the rules — what content can be used, how, at what price — and AI companies integrate once for legitimate access. Built on Omnipub, Cashmere’s data model for…

Creative Commons’ framework for how datasets can be ethically and transparently reused in AI — reciprocity and collective governance rather than pure licensing mechanics.

GetFTR now lets AI-powered research tools check users’ access rights in real time, using the Model Context Protocol to route them to the appropriate full text — plumbing for legitimate AI access to subscribed content.

Taylor & Francis’s parent Informa agreed a content licensing deal with Microsoft for AI training access to academic content — reported at $10 million initial value, one of the first major publisher-AI licensing deals and the reference point…

Cloudflare’s technical framework letting publishers charge AI crawlers for access, built on the HTTP 402 status code. Content owners get a third option beyond allow-or-block: charge. Cloudflare handles payments and authentication, preventing spoofing.

ProRata.ai is an attribution platform for the generative AI era: it analyses AI outputs, identifies the original sources, and calculates proportional payment for the creators — the same company whose ad product appears under Advertising.

Microsoft’s Publisher Content Marketplace aims to give publishers a revenue stream by providing AI systems with scaled access to premium content — big tech’s own answer to the licensing infrastructure question.Notes & quotesSee Jonathan Woahn’s Scholarly Kitchen pieces…

TollBit is a two-sided marketplace between publishers and AI companies: publishers monitor and monetise AI bot traffic, AI companies license verified content at market rates — without the long, human-intensive bespoke deal process.