Recent court rulings are reshaping AI training and copyright law space, while standards publishers face mounting pressure over public access to incorporated standards. These parallel developments signal an inflection point where traditional content licensing models must adapt or risk obsolescence.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Copyright at Crossroads: Fair Use Doctrine and the Future of Standards

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: July 10, 2025

Scholarly research solutions providers are starting to develop agentic AI offers that act as research collaborators, not just tools. These early days are marked by curiosity, caution, and the search for fit: how can intelligent agents best support the complex, evolving nature of scholarly work?

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Early Days for Agentic AI in Scholarly Research

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: July 09, 2025

In the space of a single week, two U.S. judges handed Meta and Anthropic decisive wins in AI copyright disputes, ruling that unlicensed book use for AI training qualifies as fair use. The decisions unsettle content owners and confirm courts’ growing tolerance for scraping creative works to fuel AI.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Meta and Anthropic Rulings Erode Content Owners’ Bargaining Power

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: July 08, 2025

This new analysis dives into the $23 billion Company & Contact Information market. The segment grew 5% in 2024. Growth opportunities remain overshadowed by geopolitical and economic uncertainty while AI rewrites the rules of marketing and sales, two uses cases the segement serves prominently.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Company & Contact Information 2025 Segment View

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: July 07, 2025

Clio’s $1B vLex deal proves AI is empty without exclusive content, growth now sits in the underserved long tail, and point solutions risk fading if they lack specialist data and AI depth that clients can’t easily replicate with today’s low-code tools.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Clio’s $1B Acquisition of vLex Shows AI Without Content Is Hollow

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: July 02, 2025

HG Insights’ acquisition of TrustRadius combines technographic intelligence with verified buyer intent data, offering deeper visibility into the B2B software buying journey. Other review sites stand to become acquisition targets for those looking for sharper buyer signals.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: HG Insights Buys TrustRadius to Combine Account & Buyer Intelligence

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: June 26, 2025

LexisNexis and Harvey deal removes Harvey’s biggest weakness – the lack of access to proprietary legal content – by baking LexisNexis’s cases and statutes into Harvey’s AI app. The result is a powerful combination of a legacy content giant and a startup innovator that puts competitors on notice.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: LexisNexis Arms Harvey – AI Without Proprietary Data is Obsolete

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: June 23, 2025

Standards publishers face growing uncertainty as legal shifts and tech disruption challenge traditional subscription models. Monetization is under pressure, prompting a shift toward value-added products that offer integration, usability, and digital delivery to meet evolving user needs.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Outsell Segment View – Standards 2025 – Slides

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: June 17, 2025

Standards publishers face growing uncertainty as legal shifts and tech disruption challenge traditional subscription models. Monetization is under pressure, prompting a shift toward value-added products that offer integration, usability, and digital delivery to meet evolving user needs.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Outsell Segment View 2025 – Standards Publishing

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: June 17, 2025

In a market where 80% of new products fail, testing and experimentation enable faster decisions, smarter investments, and better odds of success, turning innovation into a disciplined, repeatable growth engine.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Build New Product Development (NPD) Success with Testing & Experimentation

Author: Grant Hunter

Date: June 16, 2025

This new analysis dives into the $57 billion B2B Media & Business Information market. The segment grew by 8% in 2024, and is back to its normal growth rythms. Growth opportunities and strong demand for in-person events are overshadowed by geopolitical and economic instability and the threat of AI.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: B2B Media & Business Information 2025 Segment View

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: June 12, 2025

The race to agentic AI is on with mainstream sales, marketing, and support vendors now offering AI agents within existing products and tools. Learn which use cases accelerate insights discovery, streamline customer workflows, and accelerate agentic AI adoption now.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Sales, Marketing & Support Technology

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: June 05, 2025

An interview with Ben Kaube, Cofounder of Cassyni and Founding Investor, Scholarly Angels.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: AI and the Disintermediation of Publishing

Author: David Worlock

Date: May 29, 2025

Frictionless search, where users receive insights rather than wading through raw content, has become the benchmark for information platforms. Publishers must strike a balance between the degree of autonomy built into those capabilities and the user’s needs.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Silverchair Arms its Customers with Upgraded Search Functionality

Author: Tatiana Khayrullina

Date: May 22, 2025

Komodo and Nasdaq launch NMCI, merging real-world healthcare data with financial insights. It signals a major shift as healthcare data becomes essential for investors and capital markets strategy.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Trading on Healthcare: Komodo and Nasdaq Redefine Investment Intelligence

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: May 15, 2025

eLife’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) eligibility expires next month. Support for the journal indicates the declining importance of the JIF as a standalone metric. This brave new world of transparency amid a multiplicity of metrics opens opportunities and challenges for metrics providers.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: eLife: The Beginning of the End for the Journal Impact Factor?

Author: Kate Worlock

Date: May 14, 2025

Conversation with Sharon Bolding founder and Larry Gaudet co-founder

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Parsifer.com: Using AI to track AI content usage – So, who is using your content now!

Author: David Worlock

Date: May 06, 2025

D&B’s new move into identity resolution overlays rich business and consumer profiles and signals to create enriched B2B2C profiles. The move puts it in a rarified class of enterprise-level sales and marketing data providers that can do it at this depth and breadth.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: D&B Moves Into Business & Consumer Identity Resolution

Author: Randy Giusto

Date: May 05, 2025

CAS and Cleveland Clinic have partnered to accelerate drug discovery in brain health, combining IBM quantum computing capabilities with decades of innovation in scientific data. This alliance reflects CAS’s continued evolution from a trusted content provider to a leading force in healthcare AI.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Healthcare’s Quantum Moment: The CAS/Cleveland Clinic Alliance

Author: Nick Scheponik

Date: April 29, 2025

Global law firm Cleary Gottlieb’s recent acquisition of AI-focused startup Springbok signifies a landmark move when legal services stopped consuming technology and started competing on it.

Read more on the Outsell Leadership Community Platform: Law Firms Absorbing Legal Tech Companies

Author: Hugh Logue

Date: April 21, 2025