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Create your account — no cost, non-exclusive, and open to publishers and creators of any size.
For publishers & creators
Declare your rights once. Get paid every time.
Collective licensing organizations like ASCAP and BMI have long helped musicians get paid fairly by pooling rights into a single, indispensable offering. Through the RSL standard and the nonprofit RSL Collective, the internet now has the same model — giving millions of publishers and creators a collective voice to negotiate compensation from AI companies.
Collective rights, since 1914ASCAPBMISoundExchange→ the open web
How enrollment works
Declare your rights once.
Four steps from joining to getting paid — no per-deal negotiation, no custom integration.
Declare your rights
Publish machine-readable RSL terms across your sites and subdomains once. Set what AI use is allowed and at what price.
AI companies license
Developers access your content through one standardized collective license and automated APIs — no per-deal negotiation.
Get paid
Receive usage-based royalties and attribution every time an AI company uses your content to generate a result.
What you get
Services for publishers and creators.
The Collective runs the shared infrastructure that turns your content rights into recurring, auditable royalties.
01
Unified voice
A united voice for millions of publishers and creators to protect content rights and reclaim revenue lost to AI companies.
02
Collective negotiation
Use the collective mandate of our members to negotiate fair royalties and attribution from AI companies.
03
Automated licensing
Eliminate one-off negotiations and manual integrations — AI companies license through standardized terms and APIs.
04
Proprietary content
Encrypt and license nonpublic content — paywalled articles, books, videos, images, and data — on your terms.
05
Billing, reporting & auditing
Standardized tools to manage licensing, track usage, bill and receive royalties, and audit license compliance.
Get started
Join the Collective free →
Non-exclusive membership. Keep your copyright, set your terms.
The enrollment flow
One declaration, one license, royalties back.
Your sites declare RSL terms once. The Collective pools them into a single license AI developers can access — and routes usage-based royalties back to you.
Your content
sites & rights
→
RSL declaration
terms, once
→
Collective license
single agreement
→
AI developers
licensed access
← royalties + attribution
The Collective measures usage and distributes usage-based royalties back to you.
Your content → RSL declaration → collective license → AI developers; royalties and attribution return through the Collective.
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Free, non-exclusive to join
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Collective license, not 100 deals
Millions
Publishers & creators represented
100%
You keep your copyright
"Ziff Davis strongly supports RSL's efforts at ensuring that copyright holders receive fair compensation for their intellectual property. By working together through the shared RSL standard, we can protect the value of trusted content."
— Vivek Shah, CEO, Ziff Davis
Join the collective
Give your work a collective voice — and get paid for it.
Join free to help protect the open web and receive fair royalties and attribution every time AI companies use your content.