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Collective licensing
One auditable agreement represents thousands of publications to AI developers, so publishers don't negotiate one by one.
Collective AI licensing
Licensing infrastructure for the open internet.
RSL Collective represents thousands of publications to AI developers through a single, auditable license — and returns royalties to the publishers whose content creates the value.
Founding members
Backed byFounding publishersInternet standards bodiesRights organizations
What the collective does
One license for the whole web.
A single agreement represents publishers to AI developers, measures how their content is used, and returns royalties to the people who produced it.
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Represented rights
Publishers declare their terms once, and the collective represents and enforces them with every AI developer it licenses.
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Royalty distribution
Licensing revenue is returned to publishers based on how their content is used, with auditable reporting.
Compensation
Paid for the value your content creates.
Your work isn't averaged into a flat rate. Compensation follows how your content is used to produce AI outputs and how much value that use delivers — so distinctive, trusted, heavily-relied-upon content earns accordingly.
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The value of the contribution
Content that drives an output, or that an AI surfaces by name, earns more than content used lightly. Behind-the-scenes influence counts too — just proportionally.
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The depth of reliance
Sources that AI systems return to again and again earn more over time. Consistent, trusted content is recognized for the reliance it carries — not just a single use.
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The value of the use
Content powering higher-value AI products and markets is compensated from those richer pools. Premium use is paid as premium.
How your content is used
Its role in the output, and whether your name is surfaced
How often it's relied on
Sustained reliance across many outputs
Where it's used
The value of the AI product and market
All three feed in
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Your compensation
Scales with the value your content creates
No flat rates, no averages — every source is valued for what it actually contributes.
How it works
Rights in, royalties out.
Publishers declare their rights once. The collective licenses access to AI developers and returns royalties, measured and audited.
Publishers
declare rights
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Rights declaration
machine-readable
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Collective license
single agreement
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AI developers
licensed access
← royalties
Usage-based distribution returns to publishers, measured and audited by the collective.
Participate
Enroll your publication in three steps.
Declare
Add a machine-readable rights declaration to your site — a one-time setup.
Enroll
Join the collective license that represents you to AI developers.
Receive
Collect royalties, distributed and audited transparently.
2,400+
Enrolled publications
18.6M
Licensed works
$42M
Royalties distributed
95,000+
Creators represented
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
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.