With search traffic in free fall and AI summaries popping out everywhere, news organisations are asking some version of this question: how do we stop AI companies taking our journalism, using it to answer questions and train models, while the value of the original work flows somewhere else?

There is now a growing collection of tools and industry initiatives that can help.

They serve different purposes. Some let you block or monitor crawlers. Some create a marketplace for licensing content. Others establish technical standards or negotiate collectively on publishers' behalf. There is also growing regulatory pressure on the........

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