AI/TDM Licensing Markets and Business Models for Creative Works
The following is a list of existing AI licenses or ongoing negotiations to illustrate the robust and ongoing licensing markets for AI use of creative works. As evidenced in the list, there are multitudes of AI licenses being struck across a wide spectrum of creative disciplines. Copyright owners continue to engage in licensing for AI researchers and developers. The licenses are listed by the name of the copyright owners or by collective licensing organizations/companies.
Collective Licensing Organizations/Companies
- Created by Humans
- Protégé
- ProRata.ai
- Pro Sound Effects
- Pixta
- vAIsual
- Dappier
- Datarade
- Waffle Video
- Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (UK based)
- Publishers’ Licensing Services (UK based)
- Copyright Licensing Agency (UK based)
- Incantor (IP tracking company across AI)
Publishing
Adam Mathew (AM) Digital
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Atlas Obscura
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Copyright Clearance Center
Cambridge University Press
Elsevier
HarperCollins
IOPScience
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
JSTOR
Mediahuis
- AI Licensing Deal (ProRata.ai)
Oxford University Press
ProQuest
Royal Society
Sage Journals
Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis
Wiley Online Library
- TDM License
- AI License Deal (Potato)
TIME, Fortune, The Texas Tribune, WordPress.com, Der Spiegel, Entrepreneur
- TDM License (Perplexity AI)
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Visual Arts/Images/Platforms
Arena Group
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Getty Images
- AI License Deal (Google)
Shutterstock
Vox Media
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
News Media Publishers
Adweek
- AI License Deal (Perplexity)
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Agence-France-Press
- AI License Deal (Mistral)
American Journalism Project
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
The Atlantic
Associated Press
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
- AI License Deal (Dow Jones)
- AI License Deal (LexisNexis)
- AI License Deal (Google)
Axel Springer
- AI License Deal
- AI License Deal (Microsoft)
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
- Politico AI License Deal (Amazon)
Axios
Business Insider
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
Buzzfeed
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Condé Nast
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
DMG Media Group
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Dotdash Meridith
- AI License (Open AI)
Financial Times
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
- TDM License
- AI License Deal (Microsoft)
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Forbes
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
Guardian Media Group
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Hearst
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
- AI License Deal (Microsoft)
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
Hello!
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
The Independent
- AI License Deal (Perplexity)
The Los Angeles Times
- AI License Deal (Perplexity)
News/Media Alliance (on behalf of its members)
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
News Corp
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
New York Times
Prisa Media
Reach PLC
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
Reuters
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
- AI License Deal (Meta)
- AI License Deal (Microsoft)
Schibsted Media:
Sky Media Group
- AI License Deal (ProRata.ai)
USA Today
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
- AI License Deal (Microsoft)
The Wall Street Journal
- AI License Deal (Dow Jones)
The Washington Post
- AI License Deal (Amazon)
- AI License Deal (Dow Jones)
- AI License Deal (OpenAI)
Music
Rightsify
ShutterStock
Sony Music Entertainment
- (Ongoing negotiations) AI License (Udio and Suno)
- (Ongoing negotiations) AI License (YouTube)
Universal Music Group
- AI License Partnership (SoundLabs)
- AI License Deal (Prorata.ai)
- AI License Deal (KLAY Vision)
- (Ongoing negotiations) AI License (Udio and Suno)
- (Ongoing negotiations) AI License (YouTube)
Warner Music Group
- (Ongoing negotiations) AI License (Udio and Suno)
- (Ongoing negotiations) AI License (YouTube)