Paul Bannister is Chief Strategy Officer at Raptive, a company that supports independent publishers and creators with advertising, monetization, and audience technology. His work focuses on publisher revenue strategy, digital advertising, and business models for the open web.
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A collective rights organization for the open internet.
The RSL Collective is a nonprofit that helps publishers and creators license their content for AI use through the open RSL standard — providing the shared infrastructure, governance, reporting, and royalty administration that lets rights holders and AI companies transact on standardized, web-native terms.
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Our mission
Rights at the scale of the web.
AI is trained on the open web, but the people who create that content have had no standardized way to set terms or be paid. Individual negotiation doesn't scale to millions of publishers — and it leaves smaller creators out entirely.
The Collective closes that gap. We operate the shared infrastructure that lets any rights holder join one auditable license, and route usage-based royalties back to the publishers whose content creates the value.
Collective licensing is the only mechanism that scales rights to the size of the web while returning value to the people who create it.
— RSL Collective governance charter
Governance
Directed by the people who publish the web.
The Collective is governed by three boards drawn from leading publishers, technologists, and policy experts — setting the standards, safeguards, and economics that keep collective licensing fair and durable.
Publisher Governance Board
Rights & economics
Geoff Campbell is SVP, Strategy & Business Development at Condé Nast. He leads strategy, business, and corporate development work including AI and intellectual-property licensing activities for a global portfolio of premium media brands.
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Alicia Cervini is a publishing and media professional associated with People Inc. and its digital business portfolio. Her work is connected to digital content, financial information products, partnerships, and business strategy across scaled consumer publishing brands.
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Jessica Davis is Vice President, News Automation & AI Product at Gannett and the USA TODAY Network. Her work focuses on responsible AI adoption, automation, product strategy, and digital newsroom operations across USA TODAY and local news brands.
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Adam Doree is SVP, Global Partners & International at Ziff Davis. His work focuses on global partnerships, international growth, and publisher business strategy across Ziff Davis’s digital media and internet portfolio.
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Kat Downs Mulder is senior vice president and general manager of Yahoo News. She previously served as chief product officer and managing editor at The Washington Post, with leadership experience across product, editorial operations, and digital news strategy.
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Kevin Hayes is Chief Product Officer at Internet Brands. His work focuses on product strategy, digital platforms, and business operations across specialized consumer and professional online properties.
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Stephane Koenig is VP Strategy at Yahoo, working with Yahoo’s AI Accelerator. His work is connected to digital media partnerships, product strategy, and the business issues involved in distributing and licensing content across consumer internet platforms.
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Benjamin Lee is VP and General Counsel at Reddit. His work focuses on the legal, policy, product, and platform issues that shape user-generated content, digital rights, content moderation, and technology policy.
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Karen Oh is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives at Ziff Davis. Her work focuses on strategic partnerships, publisher initiatives, and the media business issues affecting AI, licensing, and content protection.
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Jonathan Roberts is Chief Innovation Officer at People Inc. He has been with People Inc. since 2013 and has held leadership roles across health and finance brands, strategy, and data science.
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Jennifer Salant is Head of Business Development at Condé Nast. Her work spans global partnerships, strategic dealmaking, operations, and new revenue opportunities across Condé Nast’s publishing and media portfolio.
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Matt Sanchez is Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo. His career includes leadership across digital advertising, content platforms, and consumer internet businesses at the intersection of media, technology, and commercial strategy.
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Lisa Seitz-Gruwell is president of the Wikimedia Endowment and chief advancement officer and deputy chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. Her career spans fundraising, communications, public affairs, and nonprofit leadership supporting open knowledge and public-interest technology.
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Andrew Steinberg
Executive Director, AI Business Development & Strategic Partnerships, USA TODAY Co.
Andrew Steinberg is Executive Director, AI Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at USA TODAY Co. His work focuses on data and content licensing, AI partnerships, revenue development, distribution, and go-to-market strategy for a national news publisher.
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Scott Tyson is SVP and GM, Health AI at WebMD, part of Internet Brands. His work is connected to digital health publishing, vertical media businesses, and the commercial strategy behind specialized consumer and professional online properties.
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Pam Wasserstein is President and Vice Chair of Vox Media and previously led New York Media as chief executive officer. Her career spans publishing leadership, digital media strategy, brand development, and the business operations behind journalism and culture brands.
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George Wukoson is a media executive at Everyday Health Group. His work is connected to digital health publishing, audience businesses, and commercial strategy across consumer health information brands.
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Standards & infrastructure
Jennifer Anderson is VP Engineering at Redpanda Data and previously worked on Google Maps. Her work focuses on distributed data systems, engineering leadership, mapping infrastructure, and the technical foundations for large-scale data products.
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Joey Fortuna is CTO at Ziff Davis. His work focuses on technology strategy, publishing infrastructure, and the systems that support scaled digital media and internet businesses.
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Jeremy King is the former CTO of Pinterest. His career spans engineering leadership, consumer internet platforms, commerce, and infrastructure for large-scale products.
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Law & markets
Michael Dashefsky is a partner and co-chair of the Antitrust & Trade Practices Group at Bass, Berry & Sims. His work focuses on antitrust, trade practices, competition policy, and legal issues affecting businesses and markets.
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Johannes Larcher is the former CEO of Storytel and previously served as SVP and GM at WarnerMedia / HBO Max. His career spans streaming media, subscription businesses, digital content, and global consumer entertainment platforms.
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Dominique Shelton Leipzig is CEO of Global Data Innovation. Her work focuses on data governance, privacy, AI policy, digital rights, and the legal and business frameworks for responsible data use.
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Matt Lindsay is CEO at Mather Economics. His work focuses on media economics, subscription strategy, audience revenue, pricing, and the data-driven business models that support publishers and digital media companies.
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Leadership
The team running the collective.
An operating team of product, publishing, and infrastructure leaders builds and runs the day-to-day systems behind the license.
Join the collective
Represent your publication in collective AI licensing.
Enrollment is open to publishers of any size. Declare your rights, join the license, receive your share.