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  "id": 14098853,
  "title": "NYT, Economist among publishers joining coalition to curb unpaid AI use",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/nyt-economist-among-publishers-joining-coalition-to-curb-unpaid-ai-use",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T02:19:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "VnExpress International",
    "slug": "vnexpress-international",
    "url": "https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/nyt-economist-among-publishers-joining-coalition-to-curb-unpaid-ai-use-5131572.html"
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  "account": "The Publishers Standards for Usage Rights (SPUR) coalition, established in February, now boasts over 80 member organizations spanning more than two decades. Recent additions include The Atlantic and Brazil's National Association of Newspapers, alongside established members like the Financial Times, BBC, and Associated Press. Publishers are intensifying legal actions to thwart AI firms from utilizing their content without consent for training expansive language models.\n\nEarlier this month, USA Today and affiliated newspapers filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement. OpenAI, along with its backer Microsoft, also faces comparable copyright claims from high-profile authors and news entities, including the New York Times. SPUR, fully funded by its members, is crafting industry-wide standards and technical frameworks to assist publishers in monitoring and controlling AI company usage of their content, and to streamline licensing agreements, according to its website.\n\nRebecca Grossman-Cohen, head of strategic partnerships and chief of staff at the New York Times, emphasized in a statement that intellectual property protection and technological progress can and must coexist. Publishers are concurrently confronting diminishing referral traffic as search engines introduce AI-generated answers, enabling users to access information without navigating to websites. A Reuters Institute report, citing Chartbeat data, revealed that Google's organic-search referrals to over 2,500 websites plummeted by 33% globally between November 2024 and November 2025. SPUR recently unveiled the Content Telemetry Standard, aimed at standardizing how AI agents document and report their utilization of media content, as part of its initiatives to ensure creators receive due compensation for their work.",
  "summary": "Agence France-Presse and The Economist on Monday joined more than 40 publishers in a coalition aimed at preventing AI firms from using or profiting from their content without permission.",
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        "title": "NYT, Economist among publishers joining coalition to curb unpaid AI use",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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