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The Creative Commons logo has been the global symbol for the open web, signaling that knowledge is free to share, remix, and reuse. That era may be ending. In a recent blog post, CC announced tentative support for “pay-to-crawl” systems. You can read this as a policy update. You can also read it as a signal that the fair use defense for commercial AI training is under pressure.
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