Anthropic signs first news licensing agreement with the Associated Press
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Anthropic has signed its first news content licensing agreement with the Associated Press (AP). According to Adweek, citing two people familiar with the matter, the agreement allows Claude to display AP live election results with source attribution on election night; financial terms and the agreement's duration were not disclosed. Signed ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, the agreement is Anthropic's first paid licensing of news content.
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- The DecoderAnthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time
Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher, the Associated Press, according to Adweek, allowing Claude to show live AP election results with source attribution on election night; financial terms and the agreement's length were not disclosed. Anthropic had previously rejected such partnerships, arguing that scraping publisher content is legally permissible under fair use, while rival OpenAI already has more than a dozen similar deals. Publishers have been deliberately blocking Anthropic's crawlers to force it to the negotiating table, and AP was also the first licensing partner for both Google and OpenAI.
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