Associated Press becomes the first publisher with a paid agreement at Anthropic
According to Adweek, the AI company signed a licensing agreement with the news agency just before the US midterm elections, after long holding to the principle of free use.
Anthropic has signed a content and data licensing agreement with the American news agency Associated Press, Adweek reports, citing two people familiar with the matter. It is the first time the company behind Claude has struck such a deal with a digital publisher. No amount or duration was disclosed. Anthropic did not respond to Adweek's questions, and AP declined to comment on the record.
Thanks to the agreement, Claude was able to give up-to-date results on the night of the midterm elections, citing AP as the source, Adweek writes. In August the same journalist reported that Anthropic was avoiding negotiations with publishers because it considered its use of press content legally permissible. Rival OpenAI has already signed more than a dozen such agreements, including with Axel Springer, News Corp and The Atlantic.
RuntimeWire points out that the agreement came a few days after Anthropic made its IPO prospectus public on 26 October, and that publishers have spent about two years blocking AI crawlers to force companies to the negotiating table. According to Adweek, the deal does not necessarily mean Anthropic has changed its approach for good.
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