BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 1. The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA), representing 33 news agencies across Europe, has joined the SPUR Coalition as an affiliate member, according to EANA.
The SPUR Coalition brings together organizations from the news industry seeking to establish technical standards and commercial frameworks governing the use of publishers’ content by generative artificial intelligence platforms.
The initiative was launched by organizations including the BBC, Financial Times, Sky News, Guardian Media Group, Telegraph Media Group and Associated Press. Its work focuses on enabling content owners to monitor how their intellectual property is used by AI applications and creating conditions for transparent licensing.
According to EANA, the affiliation will allow its member agencies to access SPUR resources and participate in discussions on content licensing, usage transparency and the development of standards for cooperation between news organizations and AI companies.
“EANA's affiliation with the SPUR Coalition is a natural extension of our mission to defend the interests of news agencies and the journalism they produce. For seventy years now, our alliance has stood for cooperation, news accuracy and trustworthiness, and the public value of that trusted information,” EANA Secretary General Alexandru Giboi said.
He added that joining the coalition would allow EANA to contribute the perspective of European news agencies to discussions over the role and value of journalism in the era of generative AI.
SPUR co-founder David Buttle said that news agencies represented by EANA produce journalism that is valuable to companies developing and deploying AI systems.
“The SPUR Coalition was founded to change that. We are building open technical standards that give publishers visibility and control over how their content is used within AI applications, and that make a functioning licensing market possible,” he said.
EANA was founded in 1956 and currently has 33 member agencies across Europe. It is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.
The SPUR Coalition is a non-profit industry initiative focused on developing standards for reporting content usage and establishing technical and commercial infrastructure for transparent transactions between publishers and AI platforms.
