Web AI-Licensing Layer

Turn AI usage into creator revenue,
with one line of code.

Drop-in enforcement that requires zero integration. Add the ai-license meta tag to your site, and AI companies automatically check licenses and pay you— powered by next-gen enforcement and HMAC-verified usage logs.

Protect content. Get paid.

For Content Creators For AI Companies

MCP COMPATIBLE

Claude Claude
ChatGPT ChatGPT
Gemini Gemini
Copilot Copilot
Hugging Face Hugging Face

PLATFORM INTEGRATIONS

WordPress WordPress
Shopify Shopify
Wix Wix
Ghost Ghost

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Patents Pending

100%

Revenue Goes to Creators

142B

Annual AI Inferences of Web Pages*

≈$5.7B

Royalties Lost Last Year†

*Estimated total requests that reference public URLs in 2024. †Based on $0.50 per 1K tokens (CPM) and an average 800-token request size.

Drop-in enforcement. Zero integration required.

Unlike platforms that require SDK integration or API keys, Copyright.sh works with a single HTML meta tag. AI companies automatically discover, check, and pay for your content—no code changes, no backend work.

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Next-Gen Enforcement

Advanced payment protocol ensures compliance

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HMAC-Verified Logs

Cryptographic proof for legal-grade auditing

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Creator-First Payouts

100% of licensing fees go to creators

From Web Protection to the Future of Content

Start today by protecting your website. Help build the world's largest licensed dataset that powers responsible AI. Perfect for bloggers, journalists, technical writers, researchers, and musicians.

1. Tag Your Content

Add the ai-license meta tag to your site. This simple code activates protection and sets your licensing rate.

index.html 
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta name="ai-license" content="allow; distribution:public; price:0.50; payto:your.domain.com">
  <title>Your Website</title>
</head>

Bonus Protection: Download our robots.txt to block AI scrapers while preserving search engines. This is the absolute latest in AI-bot blocking without affecting ANY search engine visibility.

View Instructions →

2. Usage is Logged

Our system detects when AI companies access your content and creates a tamper-proof record with HMAC verification.

3. Get Paid in Real-Time

Royalties from AI usage are settled automatically to your wallet. You keep 100% of every licenced token fee.

4. Power What's Next

Your licensed work safely, responsibly powers future AI responses, with full provenance tracking. Earn more when your work inspires new creations.

In case you still don't believe us

Here's a real-world simulation of an AI bot like ChatGPT or Perplexity being forced to pay for using a creator's content.

Demonstration: AI Company Forced to Pay

$ POST /api/license-content
Content-URL: https://techblog.com/ai-tutorial
AI-Company: OpenAI
Tokens-Used: 2,847
Checking ai-license tag…
Found price=0.50/1K tokens
Calculating payment…
POST /api/payments
Total cost: $1.42
Creators paid: $1.42 (100%)
✓ HMAC Verified ✓ Payment Confirmed

This creator just earned $1.42 from OpenAI using their content. Before copyright.sh, this would have been stolen for free.

How It Works In Practice

1

Protect Content

Add the meta tag to your site, which sets your licensing rate and activates protection.

2

Block & Monitor

AI companies must pay your rate or get blocked. Every usage is tracked with HMAC verification.

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Get Paid

Receive automated payouts to your account. Track your earnings in real-time on your dashboard.

Built on Open Standards

HMAC Verification (Hash-based Message Authentication Code)
Cryptographic signatures provide tamper-evident proof of usage for legal auditing and royalty reconciliation.
Next-Gen Enforcement (Advanced Payment Protocol)
Automated compliance through request-time validation—AI systems check licenses before accessing content.
MCP Integration (Model Context Protocol)
Industry-standard protocol enables seamless licensing across AI platforms without custom integrations.

Protect Any Web Content Today

Our web-first approach covers billions of pages immediately. Start simple, scale everywhere.

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Blogs & Articles

WordPress, Medium, Substack, personal blogs. Every article protected instantly with one meta tag.

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News & Journalism

Online publications, investigative pieces, breaking news. Get paid when AI quotes your work.

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Research & Academia

Academic papers, research blogs, institutional content. Finally monetize your scholarly work.

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Technical Content

Documentation, tutorials, Stack Overflow answers. Turn your free labor into licensing revenue.

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Music & Lyrics

Genius.com, artist websites, music journalism. Protect your lyrics and musical content online.

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Educational Content

Online courses, how-to guides, training materials. Get compensated for knowledge you share.

Coming Soon

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PDFs & E-books
Q3 2025
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Audio Files
Q4 2025
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Video Content
2026
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Images & Art
2026

Don't Give Up on Creator Rights

The existence of licensing solutions proves creators deserve compensation.
Tech giants want you to believe resistance is futile - we're proving them wrong.

The "Fair Use" Fallacy

"Fair use" was designed for limited, transformative purposes like commentary or parody—not for systematic, commercial-scale ingestion of the entire internet to build multi-billion dollar products. AI companies are not libraries; they are for-profit entities building derivative commercial products.

"You can't just take the entire corpus of human creative output, ingest it, and then spit it back out... that's not how fair use was ever intended to work."
— Tyler Martin, Founder of Copyright.sh

The "It's Not Scalable" Myth

Meta's Nick Clegg and others argue that it's technically impossible to license content at the scale AI needs. This is an engineering challenge, not a legal barrier. And it's a challenge we have solved.

Copyright.sh provides the exact infrastructure to make licensing scalable, simple, and automated. The "not scalable" argument is an excuse to avoid payment, not a real technical limitation.

Our Solution:
✓ Automated meta-tag license detection
✓ Real-time API for license checks
✓ Global payment routing
✓ x402 crawler blocking and micropayments
✓ Verifiable, auditable usage tracking

See How It Works

Learn about pricing options or explore the WordPress plugin for one-click setup.

Every Minute You Wait, More Content Gets Stolen

While dozens of lawsuits crawl through courts, OpenAI and Meta are scraping thousands more articles. Don't be a victim - be a plaintiff who's already getting paid.

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