| Axios, The Financial Times, Forbes, Post and Courier, Texas Tribune, Shaw Media, Oil City (publishers named in… | Paid; no amounts or contract lengths stated | 15 Oct 2026 | Google (The Keyword blog) |
| CNN to Google: Expanded rights to CNN journalism for experimental AI features in Google products, under Google's news… | Financial terms not disclosed; multiyear | 15 Oct 2026 | TheWrap |
| MassiveMusic (part of Songtradr) to GRAI: A dedicated opt-in dataset approved by rightsholders for training GRAI's own… | Terms not disclosed | 15 Oct 2026 | PR Newswire |
| Reach plc (Mirror, Express, Daily Star, Manchester Evening News) to Google: Reach joins Google's news AI pilot, giving… | Not disclosed | 12 Oct 2026 | Press Gazette |
| WiserBrand.com (Datarade listing) to Any buyer (marketplace listing): Real call-center conversation speech data for… | Marketplace starting price | 11 Oct 2026 | Datarade |
| Nexdata (Datarade listing) to Any buyer (marketplace listing): 20,000-hour casual conversation and monologue speech… | Marketplace starting price | 11 Oct 2026 | Datarade |
| Companies selling operational data (micro1 Company Data Partnerships) to micro1: Program to buy and license… | $1bn to be spent over the next 12 months (program budget, not one deal), financed with… | 9 Oct 2026 | micro1 (company blog) |
| Bennett, Coleman and Co (The Times of India) to OpenAI: Content partnership between OpenAI and the publisher of The… | Could be worth around $5m per year (E4m report, relayed by Press Gazette); parties did… | 23 Sep 2026 | Press Gazette (citing E4m) |
| Indian Express Group to OpenAI: Content partnership between OpenAI and the Indian Express Group, which had joined a… | Could be worth $3m per year (E4m report, relayed by Press Gazette); parties did not… | 23 Sep 2026 | Press Gazette (citing E4m) |
| GrabMaps (Grab) to Protege (for AI developers and model builders): Selected GrabMaps real-world data assets (imagery,… | Not disclosed | 21 Sep 2026 | Protege and GrabMaps (joint announcement) |
| Tempus AI to Recursion Pharmaceuticals: Extension to November 2029 of the 2023 data licence for Tempus's de-identified… | Committed payments of $42 million over the next three years, replacing discretionary… | 21 Sep 2026 | Tempus AI |
| Village Media to OpenAI: OpenAI's first partnership with a Canadian news organisation: OpenAI provides funding, API… | Not disclosed (funding, API credits and technical support, no figure) | 17 Sep 2026 | Press Gazette |
| Failed startups (codebases) to Turing: Five to ten failed-startup codebases bought for AI training data. | Five to ten codebases bought | 14 Sep 2026 | Fortune |
| Universal Music Group to ElevenLabs: Multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration: joint AI audio… | Not disclosed | 10 Sep 2026 | ElevenLabs |
| Believe (with TuneCore) to Suno: Licensed data from distributor Believe used to develop Suno v6. Suno announced the… | Not disclosed | 8 Sep 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Sony Music, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group to Stability AI: Catalogs licensed for training as part of… | Licences granted alongside a $76 million funding round (round size, not a licence fee) | 25 Aug 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Spirit Airlines (bankruptcy estate) to Google: Purchase of de-identified internal business data (employee emails,… | $10 million winning bid at the 14 Aug 2026 auction; not yet approved: the sale hearing… | 14 Aug 2026 | The Star (Reuters report) |
| BMG to Suno: Licensed data for Suno v6, which Suno says is not trained on the data used for earlier versions. | Not disclosed | 12 Aug 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Yelp to OpenAI (ChatGPT): Yelp's reviews, photos and other business information, linked from ChatGPT when OpenAI… | No financial terms stated in the report | 23 Jul 2026 | MediaPost |
| Merlin, Believe and the National Music Publishers' Association to Udio: Training licences Udio signed (besides UMG and… | Not disclosed | 20 Jul 2026 | Unite.AI |
| Dailymotion to Protege (for AI model builders and application developers): Dailymotion's catalogue of roughly 40… | Not disclosed | 16 Jul 2026 | Protege and Dailymotion (joint announcement) |
| Nine Entertainment (The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times) to Microsoft… | Not disclosed | 3 Jul 2026 | Microsoft Source Asia |
| Getty Images to OpenAI: Multi-year display agreement: Getty's licensed libraries shown in OpenAI search and discovery… | Not disclosed | 21 Jun 2026 | Getty Images |
| SpeechData.ai to Any buyer (catalog pricing): Off-the-shelf conversational speech datasets in 60+ languages (500 to… | Catalog list price | 18 Jun 2026 | SpeechData.ai |
| Seventeen publishers via Snowflake Cortex Knowledge Extensions (including Associated Press, People Inc, USA Today… | Six-figure deals (per Digiday) | 1 Jun 2026 | Press Gazette (citing Digiday) |
| Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to OpenAI: Real-time news from Folha de S.Paulo and UOL for ChatGPT; publishers get ChatGPT… | Values not disclosed, citing confidentiality | 25 May 2026 | Olhar Digital |
| Universal Music Group to Spotify: Licensing agreement for a Spotify AI tool letting fans make covers and remixes of… | Pricing not shared | 21 May 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Wirestock to Six of the largest foundation model makers (unnamed): AGGREGATE: images, videos, design, gaming and 3D… | Annual run-rate revenue of $40 million; $15 million paid out to contributors so far | 14 May 2026 | TechCrunch |
| John Wiley & Sons to IQVIA, OpenEvidence, Other corporate customers: AGGREGATE: Wiley AI revenue for fiscal 2026… | $49 million AI revenue in FY2026 (+23%); lifetime AI revenue over $110 million | 30 Apr 2026 | John Wiley & Sons (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) |
| Defunct startups (via SimpleClosure) to Undisclosed AI companies: Workplace archives (emails, Slack messages and… | Nearly 100 deals in the past year, as of April 2026. Newer count: over 150 deals, with… | 17 Apr 2026 | Gizmodo |
| Folha de S.Paulo to Google: Access to part of Folha's news archive and a real-time feed for Gemini; Folha's first AI… | Not disclosed | 10 Apr 2026 | Press Gazette |
| Kobalt to Udio: Licensing agreement between the music publisher Kobalt and Udio, after Udio's earlier settlements and… | Not disclosed | 9 Apr 2026 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Getty Images to Undisclosed major social platform, Undisclosed large AI company: Two multiyear licences: display… | About $65 million combined total deal value across both multiyear agreements | 16 Mar 2026 | The Motley Fool (earnings call transcript) |
| Le Figaro to Meta: International news partnership for timely answers in Meta AI with links out to the publisher (one… | Terms not disclosed | 13 Mar 2026 | Engadget |
| Prisa to Meta: International news partnership for timely answers in Meta AI with links out to the publisher (one of… | Terms not disclosed | 13 Mar 2026 | Engadget |
| Süddeutsche Zeitung to Meta: International news partnership for timely answers in Meta AI with links out to the… | Terms not disclosed | 13 Mar 2026 | Engadget |
| News Corp to Meta: US and UK News Corp content (WSJ, New York Post and others; Australian mastheads excluded per… | Up to $50 million a year (people familiar); News Corp confirmed the deal | 4 Mar 2026 | Editor & Publisher |
| Publisher Content Marketplace publishers (co-designed with AP, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, Vox Media, USA Today,… | Usage-based; publisher-set pricing; Microsoft commission undisclosed | 4 Feb 2026 | WinBuzzer |
| The Walt Disney Company to OpenAI: Three-year licence of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters… | No licence fee disclosed; Disney makes a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI (money… | 11 Dec 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Google News AI pilot publishers (Der Spiegel, El País, Folha, Infobae, Kompas, The Guardian, The Times of India,… | Direct payments; amounts not disclosed | 10 Dec 2025 | TechCrunch |
| USA Today to Meta: Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven… | Terms not publicly disclosed | 5 Dec 2025 | BNN Bloomberg |
| People Inc. to Meta: Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven… | Terms not publicly disclosed | 5 Dec 2025 | BNN Bloomberg |
| CNN to Meta: Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven announced… | Terms not publicly disclosed | 5 Dec 2025 | BNN Bloomberg |
| Fox News to Meta: Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven… | Terms not publicly disclosed | 5 Dec 2025 | BNN Bloomberg |
| The Daily Caller to Meta: Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of… | Terms not publicly disclosed | 5 Dec 2025 | BNN Bloomberg |
| Washington Examiner to Meta: Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of… | Terms not publicly disclosed | 5 Dec 2025 | BNN Bloomberg |
| Le Monde to Meta: Commercial AI data agreement for real-time news and links in the Meta AI chatbot (one of seven… | Terms not publicly disclosed | 5 Dec 2025 | BNN Bloomberg |
| Norwegian press publishers (MBL members, via Kopinor) to National Library of Norway (Norwegian government): Government… | Not stated on the source page | Dec 2025 | National Library of Norway (AI-lab) |
| Warner Music Group to Suno: Partnership that settles litigation; Suno to launch licensed models in 2026 and deprecate… | Not disclosed | 25 Nov 2025 | Warner Music Group |
| Warner Music Group to Klay Vision: Separate licensing agreement (label and publishing arm) for Klay's large music… | Not disclosed | 20 Nov 2025 | Al Jazeera |
| Universal Music Group to Klay Vision: Separate licensing agreement (label and publishing arm) for Klay's large music… | Not disclosed | 20 Nov 2025 | Al Jazeera |
| Sony Music Entertainment to Klay Vision: Separate licensing agreement (label and publishing arm) for Klay's large… | Not disclosed | 20 Nov 2025 | Al Jazeera |
| Warner Music Group to Udio: Settlement of Warner's lawsuit against Udio and licence for Udio's licensed AI music… | Not disclosed | 19 Nov 2025 | Al Jazeera |
| Warner Music Group to Stability AI: Partnership with Stability AI on AI music tools (TechCrunch: Warner Music deal… | Not disclosed | 19 Nov 2025 | Al Jazeera |
| People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith, IAC) to Microsoft: Launch partner in Microsoft's publisher content… | Deal terms not shared | 4 Nov 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Getty Images to Perplexity: Multi-year licence to display Getty images with credits and links in Perplexity search; a… | Terms not elaborated | 31 Oct 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Peter Hollens (YouTube creator, via Troveo) to Undisclosed AI companies: About 1,000 hours of old a cappella videos… | $33,000 in the past year for about 1,000 hours | 31 Oct 2025 | Semafor |
| Universal Music Group to Stability AI: Strategic alliance to co-develop professional music creation tools powered by… | Not disclosed | 30 Oct 2025 | Universal Music Group |
| Universal Music Group to Udio: Settlement of copyright litigation plus licences for recorded music and publishing; new… | Compensatory settlement and licence terms not disclosed | 29 Oct 2025 | Universal Music Group |
| Participating publishers (Comet Plus) to Perplexity: Comet Plus ($5 per month): publishers paid when Perplexity uses… | $42.5 million set aside for the first phase | 26 Aug 2025 | Shelly Palmer |
| Merlin Network to ElevenLabs: Catalog materials licensed for AI training of ElevenLabs' music-generation model. | Not disclosed | 5 Aug 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Kobalt Music Group to ElevenLabs: Catalog materials licensed for AI training of ElevenLabs' music-generation model. | Not disclosed | 5 Aug 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Gannett (USA TODAY Network) to Perplexity: Content from USA TODAY and more than 200 local USA TODAY Network… | Financial terms not disclosed | 30 Jul 2025 | USA TODAY Co. (Gannett press release) |
| Condé Nast to Amazon: Multi-year licence of editorial content for Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus. | Terms undisclosed | 10 Jul 2025 | Digiday |
| Hearst to Amazon: Multi-year licence of editorial content for Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus. | Terms undisclosed | 10 Jul 2025 | Digiday |
| The New York Times to Amazon: News, NYT Cooking and The Athletic content for Amazon AI products including Alexa and… | $20 million to $25 million a year (WSJ, people familiar); not disclosed by the parties | 29 May 2025 | eWeek |
| The Washington Post to OpenAI: Summaries, quotes and links to Washington Post stories in ChatGPT search answers. | Not disclosed | 22 Apr 2025 | TheWrap |
| University of Oxford (Bodleian Libraries) to OpenAI: Digitization partnership; by June 2025 the Bodleian had sent… | Not disclosed | Mar 2025 | The Next Web |
| Guardian Media Group to OpenAI: Guardian reporting and archive journalism as a news source in ChatGPT, with attributed… | Not disclosed | 14 Feb 2025 | The Guardian (GNM press office) |
| Schibsted Media to OpenAI: Content from VG, Aftenposten, Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet integrated into OpenAI… | Not disclosed | 11 Feb 2025 | MediaPost |
| Agence France-Presse (AFP) to Mistral AI: Multi-year agreement: Le Chat can query AFP's text stories (about 2,300 a… | Not disclosed | 16 Jan 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Axios to OpenAI: Partnership in which OpenAI funds Axios' expansion of local newsrooms into four new markets;… | Funding amount not disclosed | 15 Jan 2025 | TechCrunch |
| The Associated Press to Google: Real-time AP news feed for the Gemini app. | Not disclosed | 15 Jan 2025 | TechCrunch |
| YouTube and other content creators (via Troveo, Calliope Networks) to OpenAI, Google: Unpublished, unused creator… | Deals often worth thousands of dollars | 11 Jan 2025 | The Decoder |
| Informa (Taylor & Francis) to Several leading AI technology companies (Microsoft among them): AGGREGATE: Taylor &… | Over $75m in revenue in 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 | Informa PLC |
| HarperCollins to Microsoft: Select backlist nonfiction titles, author opt-in, for training an unnamed AI model; output… | Not disclosed | Nov 2024 | eWeek |
| Reuters to Meta: Multi-year licence: Reuters reporting used by Meta AI to answer news questions, with links to Reuters… | Dollar value not disclosed | 25 Oct 2024 | SiliconANGLE |
| Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, USA Today Network, Financial Times to Microsoft: Authorized content for… | Microsoft won't reveal payments or terms | 1 Oct 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Hearst to OpenAI: Stories from Hearst newspapers and magazines (San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE… | Not disclosed | Oct 2024 | TechCrunch |
| GEDI to OpenAI: Italian-language content from La Repubblica, La Stampa and other GEDI outlets for ChatGPT and… | Not disclosed | 26 Sep 2024 | Punto Informatico |
| Lionsgate to Runway: Lionsgate's proprietary film and TV catalog (more than 20,000 titles) used to train a custom… | Not disclosed | 18 Sep 2024 | Runway |
| John Wiley & Sons to Undisclosed second large tech company: Second GenAI content rights project; $17 million… | $21 million content rights project; $17 million realized in Q1 FY2025 | 5 Sep 2024 | John Wiley & Sons (SEC Form 8-K exhibit) |
| Condé Nast to OpenAI: Multi-year deal: stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit, Wired surfaced in… | Not disclosed | 20 Aug 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Oxford University Press to Undisclosed LLM developers: OUP confirmed AI partnerships with companies developing large… | Not disclosed | 5 Aug 2024 | Books+Publishing |
| Perplexity Publishers' Program launch partners (Automattic, Der Spiegel, Entrepreneur, Fortune, The Texas Tribune,… | Ad revenue share; split not disclosed | 30 Jul 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Informa (Taylor & Francis) to Undisclosed AI technology company: Second Taylor & Francis AI technology partnership, in… | Not disclosed | 25 Jul 2024 | The Bookseller |
| TIME to OpenAI: Multi-year partnership bringing TIME's modern and archival content (101 years) to ChatGPT. | Not disclosed | 27 Jun 2024 | TechCrunch |
| John Wiley & Sons to Undisclosed large tech company: GenAI content rights project (backlist content) for training… | $23 million content rights project | 13 Jun 2024 | John Wiley & Sons (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) |
| Shutterstock to Reka AI: Licence of Shutterstock visual media to LLM startup Reka AI. | Not disclosed | 4 Jun 2024 | Bloomberg Law |
| Vox Media to OpenAI: Licensing and product partnership: current content used to generate ChatGPT responses with… | Not disclosed | 29 May 2024 | TechCrunch |
| The Atlantic to OpenAI: Licensing and product partnership: current content used to generate ChatGPT responses with… | Not disclosed | 29 May 2024 | TechCrunch |
| News Corp to OpenAI: Current and archived content from News Corp mastheads (The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and… | "Could be" close to $250 million over five years, per The Wall Street Journal (as… | 22 May 2024 | VentureBeat |
| Reddit to OpenAI: Real-time, structured Reddit content via the Data API for ChatGPT and other OpenAI products; OpenAI… | Reportedly about $60 million per year (Bloomberg-sourced, per Sherwood); a widely… | 16 May 2024 | Sherwood News |
| Informa (Taylor & Francis) to Microsoft: Non-exclusive access to Informa's advanced learning content and data; Informa… | Initial data access fee of around $10 million plus recurring payments over the following… | 8 May 2024 | interactive investor (ii.co.uk) |
| Stack Overflow to OpenAI: OverflowAPI access to Stack Overflow Q&A data for OpenAI models, and attributed Stack… | Not disclosed | 6 May 2024 | Stack Overflow |
| Dotdash Meredith (now People Inc., IAC) to OpenAI: Dotdash Meredith content licence; Adweek reports a fixed annual… | At least about $16 million per year (fixed component only; variable component… | May 2024 | Adweek |
| Financial Times to OpenAI: FT journalism for training AI models and for attributed summaries, quotes and links in… | Financial terms not made public | 29 Apr 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Adobe Stock contributors (photographers and artists) to Adobe: Short videos of everyday actions and emotions bought… | $120 per qualifying submission | 11 Apr 2024 | Maginative |
| Shutterstock to Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple: Hundreds of millions of images, videos and music files for training;… | $25 million to $50 million each initially; most later expanded | 5 Apr 2024 | Reuters (archived copy on gwern.net) |
| Freepik to Two undisclosed large tech companies: Majority of Freepik's 200-million-image archive; five more similar… | Not disclosed | 5 Apr 2024 | Reuters (archived copy on gwern.net) |
| Photobucket to Undisclosed tech companies (in talks): IN TALKS, NO SIGNED DEAL REPORTED: licensing of Photobucket's 13… | Rates discussed in negotiations, no deal confirmed | 5 Apr 2024 | Reuters (archived copy on gwern.net) |
| Defined.ai to Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft: Marketplace price points stated by Defined.ai's CEO for licensed… | Rates vary by buyer and content type | 5 Apr 2024 | Reuters (archived copy on gwern.net) |
| Le Monde to OpenAI: French (Le Monde) and Spanish (Prisa: El País, Cinco Días, As, El Huffpost) news for ChatGPT… | Not disclosed | 13 Mar 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Prisa Media to OpenAI: French (Le Monde) and Spanish (Prisa: El País, Cinco Días, As, El Huffpost) news for ChatGPT… | Not disclosed | 13 Mar 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Stack Overflow to Google: OverflowAPI access: Stack Overflow data used to enrich Gemini for Google Cloud and to show… | Financial terms not discussed | 29 Feb 2024 | TechCrunch |
| Reddit to Google: Real-time, structured Reddit content via the Reddit Data API for training and display in Google… | Reportedly about $60 million per year | 22 Feb 2024 | The Verge |
| Reddit to Undisclosed licensees: AGGREGATE: all data licensing arrangements Reddit entered in January 2024 (buyers not… | $203.0 million aggregate contract value, terms of two to three years; at least $66.4… | Jan 2024 | Reddit, Inc. (SEC Form 424B4 prospectus) |
| Shutterstock to Multiple AI companies: AGGREGATE: Shutterstock's 2023 revenue from licensing its library to AI… | $104 million revenue in 2023 from AI licensing | 31 Dec 2023 | Bloomberg Law |
| Axel Springer to OpenAI: Axel Springer content (titles include Politico and Business Insider) for model training and… | "Tens of millions of euros" per year (FT, per The Decoder); figure not confirmed by the… | 13 Dec 2023 | The Decoder |
| The Associated Press to OpenAI: Part of AP's text archive licensed to OpenAI; AP gets access to OpenAI technology.… | Not disclosed in the announcement | 13 Jul 2023 | The Associated Press |
| Shutterstock to OpenAI: Renewal and expansion: images, videos, music and associated metadata licensed to OpenAI as… | Not disclosed | 11 Jul 2023 | TechCrunch |