Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI

A coalition of UK media companies, including the Guardian, BBC, Financial Times, Sky News, and Telegraph Media Group, has formed the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (Spur) to address the use of original journalism by AI firms. The group is urging media industry leaders to join them in establishing global licensing frameworks that ensure AI companies pay for journalistic content used in products like chatbots. Spur aims to protect intellectual property, enable transparent content usage, and develop shared industry standards, as the current scraping and reuse of news content without permission weakens the economic model supporting journalism. The coalition seeks to ensure publishers retain control of their content and are fairly compensated for its use in AI training. The FT and Guardian have already signed content licensing deals with OpenAI.

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