Anthropic signs first content licensing deal with The Associated Press
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Anthropic has signed its first news content licensing agreement with The Associated Press (AP). According to a report by The Decoder citing informed sources at Adweek, the agreement allows Claude to display source-attributed AP real-time election results on the night of the US midterm elections. The financial terms and duration of the deal were not disclosed. Previously, Anthropic had refused such content licensing partnerships and argued that scraping published content fell under fair use; publishers had previously blocked Anthropic's crawler to force it into negotiations. By contrast, rival OpenAI has struck more than ten similar publishing content licensing agreements.
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- The DecoderAnthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time
Anthropic signed its first news content licensing deal with the Associated Press (AP); according to Adweek citing informed sources, the deal lets Claude display sourced AP live election results on US midterm election night, with financial terms and duration undisclosed. Anthropic previously rejected such partnerships, arguing scraping published content was fair use; rival OpenAI already has more than ten similar deals, and publishers had blocked Anthropic's crawlers to force negotiations.
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