In a collective training deal the fee is tied to how much of the repertoire stays in: opt-outs are allowed, and a buyer can reopen the price if what remains stops being representative
In the Norwegian agreement any affected rightsholder may exempt works, before the start or later, with effect for future training (section 16). The library's stated condition (section 19) is that the training set left after opt-outs stays representative in volume, language, genre and time; if essential premises change, either party may end the agreement at once or ask to renegotiate its terms, including the size of the fee. The parties carry claims from rightsholders outside the collective in equal shares if the extended collective licence turns out not to cover the use (section 20).
Dated 19 Dec 2025Source checked 31 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 31 Oct 2026Basis: strong
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Kopinor and Nasjonalbiblioteket, training agreement, section 16 Reservasjonsrett, checked 19 Dec 2025
Everything read from this source (6)Archived copy, 1 Nov 2026
Kopinor and Nasjonalbiblioteket, training agreement, section 19 Endringsadgang, checked 19 Dec 2025
Everything read from this source (6)Archived copy, 1 Nov 2026
Kopinor and Nasjonalbiblioteket, training agreement, section 19 (the representativeness condition), checked 19 Dec 2025
Everything read from this source (6)Archived copy, 1 Nov 2026
Kopinor and Nasjonalbiblioteket, training agreement, section 20, checked 19 Dec 2025
Everything read from this source (6)Archived copy, 1 Nov 2026
- Annual collective licence for the National Library of Norway to train Norwegian language models on Norwegian newspaper text (press publications up to one year after publication, non-exclusive), agreed by Kopinor for its member organisations: the 2026 fee
- Norwegian press publishers (MBL members, via Kopinor) to National Library of Norway (Norwegian government): Collective, non-exclusive licence for the National Library to train and publicly release Norwegian language models on Norwegian newspaper text up to one year after publication; rightsholders may exempt their works.
- The December 2025 Norwegian collective agreement lets the National Library train language models on Norwegian press publications up to one year after publication, and leaves out trade-press, magazine and weekly-press text and all pictures, sound and video; rightsholders may exempt works. It is the only collective AI training licence found with a published fee.
- A collective training licence can be a single annual sum for the whole repertoire, indexed to consumer prices, with no price for any one work
- Under an extended collective licence a holder who never joined the collective can still be inside the licence, and opt-out is then the holder's only lever
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.