Anthropic Reaches First News Content Licensing Agreement with Associated Press
On the eve of the U.S. midterm elections, Anthropic reached its first content licensing agreement with the Associated Press. Claude can display AP election results data in real time on election night with source attribution; financial terms and duration were not disclosed. Previously, Anthropic had consistently refused such partnerships, arguing that crawler scraping complies with the fair use doctrine, while OpenAI has signed deals with more than ten media outlets including Axel Springer, News Corp., and The Atlantic. Some publishers had blocked Anthropic's crawlers, which limited Claude's answers on time-sensitive questions.
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Anthropic previously insisted that crawler scraping constituted fair use; this shift toward licensing can be viewed in contrast with OpenAI's arrangements with more than ten media outlets.
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Cut off by websites, Anthropic pays for news content licensing for the first time
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According to Adweek, citing two people familiar with the matter, Anthropic's partner this time is the Associated Press (AP). Under the agreement, the Claude chatbot can display AP election result data in real time on the night of the U.S. midterm elections and cite the source of the information. The two sides did not disclose the financial terms or the duration of the agreement.
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By contrast, competitor OpenAI has already reached similar agreements with more than a dozen media organizations, with partners including Axel Springer, News Corp., and The Atlantic, among others.
However, because it cannot obtain the latest content provided by news publishers, Claude is greatly limited in answering time-sensitive questions. To force Anthropic to come to the negotiating table, some publishers had previously proactively blocked the company's web crawlers to prevent them from scraping website content.
It is worth noting that the Associated Press was also among the first media organizations to reach content licensing partnerships with Google and OpenAI.
Currently, Anthropic is approaching an IPO.
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