AI Licensing Markets

AI Licensing 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 Orgs
Literary Works Licensing
Visual Works Licensing
Music/Audio Licensing

Collective Licensing Organizations

Literary Works Licensing

Factiva/Dow Jones

  • Deals with approximately 4,000 publishers from over 160 countries for use of content in Factiva Smart Summary, including:
    • AWP Finanznachrichten
    • Barron’s
    • Dow Jones Newswires
    • Financial News
    • IBD
    • MarketWatch
    • News Corp Australia
    • News UK
    • Private Equity News
    • The Associated Press
    • The Washington Post
    • Wall Street Journal

ProRata.ai

  • Deals with over 500 news publications and other rightsholders, both directly and through News/Media Alliance’s framework agreement, including:
    • 270 Media 
    • Adweek  
    • Arena Group  
    • Atlas Obscura  
    • Axel Springer  
    • Boston Globe Media  
    • Buzzfeed  
    • Cherry Road Media
    • dmg media  
    • EFE  
    • Exponential View
    • Fast Company 
    • Financial Times  
    • FiscalNote  
    • Fortune  
    • Frommer’s  
    • Future  
    • Gear Patrol
    • Graham Holdings Company (Foreign Policy, Slate)
    • Guardian Media Group  
    • Healthline 
    • Hello!  
    • IBT Media 
    • Industry Dive  
    • Johns Hopkins University Press
    • Lee Enterprises  
    • Man of Many  
    • Mansueto Ventures (Fast Co. and Inc.)
    • Map Happy  
    • Mediahuis  
    • Mumsnet  
    • News/Media Alliance 
    • Newsday
    • Newstex
    • PRISA Media  
    • Pro Football Network
    • Prospect  
    • Reach PLC  
    • Reader’s Digest  
    • Recurrent Ventures  
    • Skift
    • Sky News
    • Snopes  
    • StyleBlueprint  
    • The Atlantic  
    • The Nation  
    • The New Republic  
    • The Philadelphia Inquirer  
    • TipRanks  
    • Vox Media  
    • Washingtonian  
    • Worth

Other AI Licenses for Literary Works

Adam Mathew (AM) Digital

Adweek

Agence France-Presse

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Journalism Project

  • AI License Deal (OpenAI)

Associated Press

Axel Springer

Axios

Business Insider

Cambridge University Press

CCC (Copyright Clearance Center)

Condé Nast

Dotdash Meredith

Elsevier

Financial Times

Forbes

Future (Marie Claire, PC Gamer, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide)

Gannett

GEDI (La Repubblica, La Stampa)

Guardian Media Group

HarperCollins

Hearst

Informa

IOPScience

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

JSTOR

Lee Enterprises

Le Monde

Los Angeles Times

Mexico News Daily

News Corp (Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal)

Oxford University Press

PRISA Media

ProQuest

Reddit

Reuters

Sage Journals

Schibsted Media

Springer Nature

Taylor & Francis

The Atlantic

The Guardian

The Independent

The Los Angeles Times

The New York Times

The Royal Society

The Washington Post

TIME

USA Today

Vox Media (New York Magazine, The Verge, Vox, Eater)

Wiley Online Library

Visual Works Licensing

Getty Images

Shutterstock

Music/Audio Licensing


Bertelsmann

Kobalt

Pond 5

Rightsify

ShutterStock

Sony Music Entertainment

SourceAudio

Symphonic Distribution

Universal Music Group

Warner Music Group