Publisher licensing

Deals where labs pay (or get blocked) for using professional content. Changes which domains appear in answers.

You are probably not The Times. You still feel the side effects when a lab loses a source class.

Don’t assume your blog is in a licensed set.

Examples

A lab signs a deal with a magazine. That magazine starts dominating Overviews in a niche. Your unlicensed blog waits in RAG-land.

The corpus used to bake parametric memory. Your brand in that pile is why ChatGPT “just knows” you — until it doesn’t.

robots.txt is the fetch permission file at the site root. AI crawlers read it too. Misconfigure it and you vanish from training, search, or both.

Legal/technical flags that reserve text-and-data-mining rights. EU-flavored. Partial crawler support.

Can I license my SaaS blog? +

Unlikely they’ll call. Focus on being cited via search bots you allow.

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