Microsoft is piloting a Publisher Content Marketplace that would compensate media outlets when their work is used in Copilot and other AI products. Instead of bespoke deals, it aims to build a standing platform for transactions and expansion beyond a small initial cohort. The pitch was made to publishing executives at a Monaco Partner Summit.
— A platformized compensation model could set de facto standards for AI–publisher relations, reshaping incentives, bargaining power, and copyright governance across the web.
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Altman says OpenAI will share revenue with rightsholders when users generate videos of their characters in Sora, paralleling Microsoft’s Publisher Content Marketplace that compensates media used in AI—both shift AI economics toward paid licensing for downstream use.
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Microsoft’s invite‑only briefing in Monaco about the Publisher Content Marketplace and its plan to launch a limited pilot with select U.S. publishers.
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