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Based on this article by Sarah Perez posted on TechCrunch.

The internet's most famous advocate for open sharing, Creative Commons, is tentatively backing a "pay-to-crawl" future to save digital publishing from the AI era. This shift aims to replace the broken "traffic-for-data" trade with a system where AI bots pay websites directly to scrape content for model training.

While this could throw a financial lifeline to smaller creators who lack the clout of media giants, it also risks creating a new digital divide for non-profit researchers and educators. Ultimately, Creative Commons hopes this framework will keep content accessible in the public square rather than seeing it retreat behind even more restrictive, private paywalls.

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