Edition No. 85 · Tue 15 Sept 2026 · Story 25 of 46

Google rolls out pay-per-value AI licensing program to publishers

Digiday

Google is scaling a pay-per-value AI content licensing program that critics call a legal fig leaf for publishers.

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