Platform and policy changes that move the numbers.
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Prompt-only output carries no copyright. The U.S. Copyright Office and Korea's copyright authority reached the same conclusion from different statutes. That does not stop you selling it — but it changes what you can stop other people doing.
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We read the displayed values on two marketplaces on the same day. One puts a short time next to the money — five days, thirty minutes. The other puts a long time and a failure next to it. The difference is what each list is actually selling.
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The first major overhaul since 2018. The entry bar for new applicants doubles, and Shorts revenue sharing gets a standing condition of 10 million views per 90 days. Most Shorts monetisation guides you can find today were written before this.
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Rankings really did move this month. Google's own log records no update at all. Several guides have filled that gap with dates they attribute to a Google page that does not contain them.