#publisher-rights

#publisher-rights

And he is wary of giving away too much without clear value in return. TMB - which owns brands like Reader's Digest, Taste of Home, and user-generated video licensing company Jukin Media - doesn't want to give LLMs wide access to its content. "We just don't want to hand over the keys," said Salamon at Digiday's Publishing Summit in Miami, Fl., in September.

"Given Google's scale, size and market condition, they need to come to a place of playing ball," Vogel said Monday.

The new lawsuit goes farther by accusing Google of continuing to "wield its monopoly to coerce PMC into permitting Google to republish PMC's content in AI Overviews" and to use that content "for training and grounding its AI models." Google spokesperson José Castañeda said in a statement that AI Overviews make Google search "more helpful" and create "new opportunities for content to be discovered."

Enter the Real Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard, a new tech-based licensing solution for the "AI-first internet," as RSL puts it. It's backed by Reddit, Yahoo!, Ziff Davis (PCMag's parent company), People, Medium, WikiHow, Quora, Adweek, and more.