Jessica Davies of Digiday spoke with Matt Rogerson, FT’s director of global public policy and platform strategy, about how the business newspaper is approaching its artificial intelligence relationships.
Here is an excerpt:
On future of FT’s licensing deals with Google and Meta
Rogerson: “We’ve already got long-standing relationships with Google, so I’d be surprised if we weren’t in conversations with them on how that evolves. Meta, I’m not aware of any conversations. Meta is obviously changing its approach, going from its open-weights model Llama to creating proprietary models in the same way that OpenAI has. They’ve also brought a lot of new people in, and they’re also facing quite a lot of court cases around how they’ve used copyright material in the past. So there are ongoing court cases in the U.S. around pirate libraries and unlawful access to content.
“I think there’s a misnomer that was put around over the past two years in the US that everything is fair use and there are no consequences to anything that’s happened. I think you’re seeing through some of the cases that flow through at the moment, like Bartz v. Anthropic even where a judge believes that there might be a claim that some of the use of that content is fair use, the unlawful access element means that Anthropic is on the hook for $ 1.5 billion.
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