Deal tracker updates are emails from DataPacts that report new AI data licensing deals, new court filings and rulings in training-data cases, and changes to the terms that buyer programs publish. DataPacts is an independent reference on AI training data licensing and keeps these records with a source and a date on each row. Signing up takes an email address, and a subscriber can unsubscribe at any time.
Each item follows how we source, date and check every figure on the methodology page.
What each update reports
Each update reports changes to three records that DataPacts keeps with a source and a date on every row.
- Deals: new or changed rows in the deal tracker, which holds 74 deals as of 2026-11-09.
- Court filings and rulings: changes in the case tracker, which holds 70 rows as of 2026-11-09.
- Buyer program changes: published payouts, referral fees and terms, tracked across 143 programs as of 2026-11-09, 140 of them with terms read from the operator's own page.
Every item names the source document it rests on and the date it was checked.
When an update is sent
DataPacts sends an update when one of the trackers records a change, and there is no fixed schedule. A dated example shows the kind of change that qualifies: in In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc., No. 25-11897 (SHL) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.), Dkt. 1779 sets a hearing on the Spirit Airlines data sale for 2026-11-17, and the sale is not approved as of 2026-11-09. A hearing date, a ruling or a new filing like this one would appear in an update once the case tracker records it, with the docket number and the date.
What an update never contains
An update reports recorded changes and nothing else: no advertising, no sponsored placements and no referral links.
- No ads and no sponsored items, in any update.
- No referral links today; if DataPacts joins a referral program, it says so on the page on how DataPacts is funded.
- Buyer payouts and fees appear only as the buyer's own claim with its check date, and never ranked by fee.
- Deal values appear only where a party or a filing states them, and figures that only the press reports are left out.
What DataPacts keeps and how to unsubscribe
DataPacts keeps the email address entered, with the record of consent, until the subscriber unsubscribes. The legal basis is consent, which unsubscribing withdraws. The address is stored in a Cloudflare D1 database, Cloudflare, Inc. acts as a processor, and each sign-up sends a short notification email to the editorial inbox. A second sign-up with the same address changes nothing, and no confirmation email is sent. DataPacts does not sell this data or use it to train language models.
To unsubscribe, write to editorial@datapacts.com from the subscribed address and ask to be removed, and the address is then deleted from the list. Retention, rights and processors are set out in what the privacy notice says about deal tracker updates.
Where the tracked records live
The records behind every update are public on DataPacts and can be read without subscribing.
- The deal tracker with parties, dates, values and sources.
- The case tracker with rulings and settlements.
- AI data partnership payouts and program terms compared, dated.
- The buyer program changelog, with every dated change to terms.
- The company data enquiry for an independent introduction to suitable buyers.
- The introducer form for advisers who know a company, estate or client holding data.