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License, Please: Mapping the Road Ahead for AI Licensing

May 20, 2026, 2:00 PM - Join the News/Media Alliance and the Center for Media and Digital Governance at Open Markets Institute for a conversation about the past, present, and future of AI content licensing ... Read More
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News/Media Alliance Files Comments on Postal Rate Increases

The proposed adjustments would raise Periodicals rates for Outside County by an average of 6.5 percent, In-County by an average of 9.3 percent, and Marketing Mail (MM) prices by an average of 4.8 percent ... Read More
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News/Media Alliance Calls on the Copyright Office to Withdraw Proposal for a Massive Registration Fee Hike for News Publishers

The Office’s fee study proposes a 3.5-fold price increase for the application, from $95 to $350. NMA’s submission was joined by forty-nine press associations and included letters from 30 state press associations and individual publishers ... Read More
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News Publishers Demand Accountability from Common Crawl Over Unauthorized Use of Content

The News/Media Alliance, representing a collection of leading news publishers, submitted a letter to Common Crawl demanding the archive site stop its unauthorized scraping and storage of content, and establish additional protocols to prevent publisher content in its database from ... Read More
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News/Media Alliance Files Amicus Brief in Amazon v. Perplexity

The case involves Perplexity’s misrepresentation of its AI Agent to gain access to password-protected areas of Amazon’s site, despite Amazon’s express prohibition and use of technical methods to block Perplexity’s bots ... Read More
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News Media Industry Unites in Washington for a Joint National Gathering

The News/Media Alliance and America's Newspapers are partnering to offer members of both organization access to a joint event that combines their two signature events, NMA's Annual Fly-In and AN's Senior Leadership Conference ... Read More
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Announcing a Joint National Gathering for the News Media Industry

The News/Media Alliance and America's Newspapers announced a landmark collaboration that will bring together top leaders from across the news media industry for a combined event on September 27-30, 2026 in Washington, DC ... Read More
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News/Media Alliance Applauds Introduction of SECURE Data Act

The SECURE Data Act, which would create a consistent and predictable national standard by drawing on consumer privacy language already adopted by nearly twenty state legislatures.  ... Read More
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News/Media Alliance Joins Amicus Brief in Donnelly v. Des Moines Register

This case involves a suit brought by an Iowa resident against The Des Moines Register alleging that a poll published days before the presidential election, which didn’t ultimately match the results of the election, constituted “fraud.”   ... Read More
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AI Vendor Showcase – Educational Webinar Series

Join the News/Media Alliance for upcoming presentations in our educational webinar series showcasing various companies that make up the artificial intelligence (“AI”) vendor landscape.  ... Read More
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News/Media Alliance Applauds New York Legislators for Introducing Landmark Bot Transparency Legislation

The New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act is a set of common-sense rules that require bots to identify themselves and their purpose, and a necessary step towards transparency and accountability for bad actors ... Read More
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News/Media Alliance Applauds Maryland General Assembly in Passing Dedicated Advertising Allocation for News Organizations

The Maryland General Assembly overwhelmingly voted in support of SB459, a measure to require units of the Maryland state government to allocate at least 50 percent of their advertising spending directly to Maryland news organizations ... Read More
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