The Internet Licensing Collective, a nonprofit, publisher-led licensing company for Internet publishers and creators, launched the another day alongside Yahoo Scout as its archetypal business partner. Through the ILC, Yahoo Scout volition pay publishers for using their satisfied in its AI responses.
In short, the ILC is another institution looking for ways to get AI companies to pay for using your satisfied in their AI responses.
The press release, "Today, a collection of additional than 3000 media brands, satisfied owners and publishing platforms, including the foremost sources powering frontier AI models, launched the Internet Licensing Collective (ILC), a nonprofit, publisher-led company entitlements institution making AI satisfied licensing applicable at net scale."
"Yahoo Scout, a new AI answers tool from Yahoo, is confirmed as ILC’s archetypal business licensee," it added.
“AI answers are lone as fine as the sources rearward them,” stated Eric Feng, SVP and GM of Yahoo Research Group. "Our accord alongside ILC is one way we’re continuing to innovate and activity to assistance publishers as we build on the trusted cognition Yahoo Scout delivers to our users.”
“The net doesn’t need another black-box fee experiment,” stated Doug Leeds, co-founder of ILC. “ILC was built by satisfied owners to be the opposite: a transparent, durable licensing scheme alongside clear, incentive-aligned allocation rules. This is genuine infrastructure for a thriving AI economy—not a hedge against it.”
Continued Leeds, “Yahoo Scout, an AI answers tool from among the internet’s largest platforms alongside additional than 30 years in hunt and a lengthy former of supporting publishers and the open web, has chosen to act in this new scalable way to admission and pay publishers for high-quality content. This is fair the beginning.”
Brian Provost from Yahoo stated on X, "AI answers are lone as fine as the sources rearward them. ILC gives publishers a new choice for fair, transparent compensation, and gives Yahoo Scout a scalable way to admission additional trusted content. This accord is one way we’re continuing to assistance publishers as we build on the trusted cognition Yahoo Scout delivers to our users."
Today, 3,000+ publishers launched the Internet Licensing Collective, and it was announced that Yahoo Scout is its archetypal business licensee. 🎉
AI answers are lone as fine as the sources rearward them. ILC gives publishers a new choice for fair, transparent compensation, and gives Yahoo Scout a scalable way to admission additional trusted content. This accord is one way we’re continuing to assistance publishers as we build on the trusted cognition Yahoo Scout delivers to our users.
Thanks to everyone who came together to get this done.
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— Brian Provost (@brianprovost) November 12, 2026
There are a fistful of organizations operating on ways to assistance publishers and creators monetize their satisfied in this AI earth - current is one more.
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