Major Publishers Join Coalition to Track AI Content Use and Demand Fair Compensation

The New York Times, The Economist, and Agence France-Presse have joined over 40 new publishers in the SPUR coalition, a standards body launched in February 2026 by news outlets to establish how artificial intelligence systems must record and report their use of journalistic content. The Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition now encompasses 80 publishers across more than 20 countries, reflecting mounting industry pressure on AI companies to use news content fairly and provide compensation.