FT, BBC, Guardian Join UK News Giants in SPUR Coalition to Regulate AI Journalism Use

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UK News Giants Form SPUR Coalition to Regulate AI Use of Journalism

The move follows mounting concern across the media industry about unlicensed scraping of articles and archives by AI developers.

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Storyboard•27-02-2026, 10:12

UK News Giants Form SPUR Coalition to Regulate AI Use of Journalism

•Five major UK news organizations, including FT, Guardian, BBC, form SPUR coalition.
•Aims to establish standards for AI companies accessing and licensing journalism.
•Addresses concerns over unlicensed scraping of articles by AI developers.
•Seeks to create technical standards and responsible licensing models for AI access.
•Not a pricing cartel, but will evaluate pricing models like "pay-per-crawl".

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