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#contentlicensing — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contentlicensing, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/20/associated-press-wikipedia-inks-ai-deals-with-microsoft-meta-and-perplexity-as-it-marks-25th-birthday/
  2. 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

    implicator.ai/cloudflare-wants

  3. 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

    implicator.ai/cloudflare-wants

  4. 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

    implicator.ai/cloudflare-wants

  5. 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

    implicator.ai/cloudflare-wants

  6. 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

    implicator.ai/cloudflare-wants

  7. 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/

  8. 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/

  9. 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/

  10. 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/

  11. 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/

  12. Tubefilter: “Twitch for sports” platform raises $22 million so leagues will let its creators stream games. “Just like Twitch, it allows streamers to broadcast content to live audiences, who can respond with text chats–but unlike Twitch, its platform is specifically sports-focused. And it knows streamers are often blocked from broadcasting any official matches. Playback previously […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/28/tubefilter-twitch-for-sports-platform-raises-22-million-so-leagues-will-let-its-creators-stream-games/

  13. A TollBit analysis of 160 websites reveals AI search engines drive 96% less referral traffic than Google Search. 🚨🔍 #AI #SearchEngines #Google #DigitalMarketing #ReferralTraffic #TechNews #SEO #ContentLicensing

  14. Engadget: YouTube TV has reached a deal with Paramount to keep carrying CBS, CBS Sports and other channels. “YouTube TV has reached a deal with Paramount to avoid cutting off subscribers’ access to certain channels, including CBS, CBS Sports and Nickelodeon.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/17/engadget-youtube-tv-has-reached-a-deal-with-paramount-to-keep-carrying-cbs-cbs-sports-and-other-channels/

  15. "a few conclusions:
    - It is a moral obligation for every #fediverse site to prevent crawling of federated content by robustly setting robots.txt directives at a minimum
    - Discussions about adding #contentlicensing support to the fediverse are even more important than they appear
    - Someone needs to #legallyprevent AI vendors from using all available data as training fodder."

    werd.io/2024/protecting-artist

  16. @alastor8472 People are certainly free to make their own decisions, but they should be informed decisions. If what you are referring to are the recent posts about the Bluesky content licensing terms that effectively give them co-ownership of your content, or this post about the deceptive marketing tactics they are employing, these are things that people should be aware of and consider when making their choices.

    #twittermigration #Bluesky #ContentLicensing #DataProtection