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The content creators for the Times have already been paid for their work.

They were paid when the original content was to be printed or posted on the internet.

Subsequently selling (or extracting compensation for) those works to AI companies is an emergent revenue stream.

I suppose the NYT isn’t legally obligated to share that revenue fairly with the authors, but it’d be awful nice if they did.

Believe me, publishers have enough trouble keeping writers employed. If they could give them a larger cut or do some kind of revenue share, most editors and GMs would love to (and many do).

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