Collective

The Collective Rights Platform
for the AI-first Internet

The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together online publishers, publishing platforms, and licensing agencies to enable publishers to receive fair royalties from AI companies

Featured Supporters

RedditPeople Inc.YahooInternet BrandsZiff DavisGannettCondé NastVox MediawikiHowStack OverflowO’Reilly MediaMediumQuizletFast CompanyInc.Note Inc.SlateBuzzFeedThe Daily BeastMIT PressRankerEvolve MediaRaptiveVerticalScopeMan of Many

Online Publishers

Receive royalties when AI companies use your content

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Publishing Platforms

Enable AI licensing royalties for your customers

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Ad Networks

Integrate AI licensing monetization into your ad solutions

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Licensing Agencies

Provide collective AI licensing services to your members

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Collective Representation for the Internet

The RSL Collective is a nonprofit rights organization and licensing platform that uses the RSL Standard to bring collective licensing and bargaining power to the Internet, setting fair market prices for content owners, and simplifying licensing for AI companies.

Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit

Reddit supports the RSL Standard and the RSL Collective as important steps toward protecting the open web.

Vivek Shah, CEO of Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis strongly supports RSL’s efforts at ensuring that copyright holders receive fair compensation for their intellectual property.

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Pay per inference: A new, sustainable business model for the AI-first Internet

The RSL Collective licensing platform enables AI companies to compensate publishers and creators every time their content is used to generate an AI result—creating sustainable royalty streams for content owners and allowing AI companies to scale their licensing costs with usage.

xml
  <rsl xmlns="https://rslstandard.org/rsl">
    <content url="/" server="https://api.rslcollective.org">
      <license>
        <permits type="usage">ai-train, ai-input</permits>
        <payment type="inference">
          <standard>https://rslcollective.org/license</standard>
        </payment>
      </license>
    </content>
  </rsl>
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Securely license nonpublic content including books, videos, and datasets

Protect proprietary content from unlicensed crawlers through an open, standards-based solution that encrypts and protects digital assets during transit.

xml
<rsl xmlns="https://rslstandard.org/rsl">
  <!-- Accessing encrypted EPUB file requires obtaining a license key -->
  <content url="/books/book1.epub.enc" encrypted="true" 
           server="https://api.rslcollective.org">
    <license>
      <payment type="inference">
        <standard>https://rslcollective.org/license</standard>
      </payment>
    </license>
  </content>
</rsl>
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Support the RSL Collective

Protect the livelihoods of creators and publishers by sharing your support for the RSL Standard and the RSL Collective on social media: