By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent
AML Intelligence has joined the SPUR Coalition, a non-profit group focused on publisher usage rights in the age of AI.
The coalition, including some of the world’s leading news organizations, aims to create fair, transparent, and sustainable standards for how AI systems use journalistic content.
The announcement came at the 77th World News Media Congress in Marseille, where SPUR (Standards for Publisher Usage Rights) welcomed 30 new members.
The expansion brings the coalition, dubbed the ‘NATO for news’, to 36 publishers and affiliate organizations.
It marks SPUR’s most significant expansion since its public launch at the end of February.
Stephen Rae, AML Intelligence Co-Founder and Chair, said: “At AML Intelligence, we value producing original regulatory intelligence and content for our members, giving the best possible insights in the worlds of anti-financial crime and fraud.
“To ensure we can continue to provide valuable insights and original reporting, publishers must be compensated if AI models use our content. That is what the SPUR Coalition is about – ensuring that AI platforms recognise and pay a fair price for original work.”
Dominic Young from the SPUR Coalition said: ”We are delighted to welcome AML Intelligence to SPUR and look forward to working together to help establish a healthy and transparent market for content used by AI.”
The BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian, Sky and The Times were the founding members on its launch this year. Mediahuis joined last month.
The SPUR coalition joins a growing global push that has centred on the EU and U.S. Publishers and industry bodies have been lobbying for recognition and remuneration of journalism in the AI ecosystem.
Multiple news media companies have sued AI companies for copyright infringement. They have said that the likes of OpenAI, best known for its ChatGPT AI model, used millions of news articles without permission and are set to make billions of dollars in profits as a result.
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