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
45 000 000 kr (i 2026) per year, one total fee for the whole agreement (indexed to consumer prices from the 2027 payment)
Dated 19 Dec 2025Source checked 31 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 31 Oct 2026Basis: stated
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“Det betales et årlig samlet vederlag på 45 000 000 kr (i 2026) for bruk av beskyttet materiale etter denne avtalen.”
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- $13M per contract yearText and archives, sales that happened, per contract year