Yahoo Scout Will Pay Publishers Through the Internet Licensing Collective for Content in AI Answers
TLDR
The Internet Licensing Collective, a nonprofit publisher-led licensing group, launched with Yahoo Scout as its first commercial partner, and Yahoo Scout will pay publishers through the ILC for using their content in its AI responses.
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SERoundtable reports that the Internet Licensing Collective, a nonprofit licensing collective for internet publishers and creators, has launched with Yahoo Scout as its first commercial partner. Under the arrangement, Yahoo Scout will pay publishers through the ILC for using their content in its AI responses.
How we got here: earlier coverage
- Nov 12Yahoo Is First Licensee of the Internet Licensing Collective's AI Content Model
The Internet Licensing Collective, formerly RSL, is launching a collective AI content licensing model with Yahoo as its first licensee, letting publishers of all sizes be paid based on how their content is used in Yahoo's AI search engine Scout.
- Nov 10Yahoo Launches Pivot Search in Yahoo Search and Exits Beta for Yahoo Scout
Yahoo announced Pivot Search for Yahoo Search and moved its Yahoo Scout app out of beta, which has processed over 3 billion answers since launch.
- Sep 22Google launches AI contribution pilot paying invited publishers
Google is paying select publishers for content featured in AI Overviews through a new pilot program accessed via Search Console, though citations and links within AI answers don't trigger payment.
- Sep 14Google is testing a program to pay publishers when their content feeds Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode answers
Google is piloting a Search Console program to pay publishers whose content is used in Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode results.