We believe creators deserve fair compensation when their work powers the AI revolution. Our mission is to make that happen.
To ensure creators are fairly compensated when their content is used to train AI models, while providing AI companies with ethical, high-quality licensed content.
We're building the infrastructure for a future where AI development and creator rights coexist harmoniously - where innovation doesn't come at the expense of the people who create the content that powers it.
Think of us as the "ASCAP/BMI for the AI age" - creating a global standard for content licensing that works for both creators and AI companies.
Meta Tag Standard Created
Patents Filed
Creator Onboarding Begins
The principles that guide everything we do at copyright.sh
Every creator deserves compensation when their work generates value. We ensure 90% of licensing fees go directly to creators, not middlemen.
No hidden fees, no black box algorithms. Creators see exactly how their content is used and what they earn from every transaction.
We're solving a new problem with cutting-edge technology. HMAC verification, real-time tracking, and global licensing infrastructure.
Creators control their content, set their own rates, and can opt out anytime. True ownership means true control.
Building a worldwide standard for AI content licensing that works across borders, currencies, and legal systems.
Complex problems don't need complex solutions. One meta tag, automatic payments, zero bureaucracy.
copyright.sh was born from a simple observation: the AI revolution is built on the work of millions of creators who receive nothing in return.
When ChatGPT launched in 2022, it became clear that AI models were trained on vast amounts of copyrighted content - articles, books, research papers, code, and creative works. The creators of this content? They received nothing while AI companies built billion-dollar businesses.
This dismissive attitude toward creator consent sparked our mission. If Meta and OpenAI thought it was "impossible" to ask permission and pay creators, we'd prove them wrong.
In Q4 2024, we developed the distributed licensing meta tag standard. In Q2 2025, we filed provisional patents for our technical approach. Now we're building the infrastructure layer between AI companies and content creators—using simple meta tags, cryptographic verification, and automated payments to make it not just possible but easy for AI companies to license content ethically.
We're currently in pre-launch mode, finalizing our creator onboarding system and working with select AI companies to integrate our licensing API. Every creator who joins our platform, every AI company that chooses ethical licensing, and every payment we facilitate brings us closer to a future where AI development and creator rights work together, not against each other.
How technology disrupts creators, then activists and innovators fight back to build fair solutions
Napster enables widespread music piracy, devastating artist revenue. Record industry files lawsuits but piracy spreads across P2P networks, crushing CD sales and artist income.
Steve Jobs partners with record labels to launch iTunes Store. "99¢ per song" creates the first successful digital music marketplace, providing legal path that benefits both artists and consumers.
YouTube grows by hosting massive amounts of user-uploaded copyrighted content. DMCA safe harbor protections enable YouTube to profit while creators face endless takedown whack-a-mole.
YouTube develops ContentID system allowing creators to automatically claim and monetize their content. Imperfect but lets creators earn from uploads rather than just fighting them.
Google scans millions of copyrighted books without permission. Authors Guild fights for over a decade. Google wins on "fair use" grounds, setting precedent for massive content appropriation.
Musicians organize against low Spotify payouts. Taylor Swift pulls catalog from Spotify. Industry pressure leads to improved royalty rates and transparency for streaming platforms.
ChatGPT reveals AI models trained on massive copyrighted datasets - books, articles, websites. Scale dwarfs previous disruptions: millions of creators' work used without permission or payment.
Authors Guild, New York Times, Getty Images file major lawsuits. Sarah Silverman, Michael Chabon join class actions. Legal advocacy groups rally unprecedented creator defense.
Meta's Nick Clegg argues paying creators "isn't scalable." AI companies claim technical impossibility of licensing while building billion-dollar businesses on stolen content.
OpenAI signs licensing deals with AP, Financial Times, and other major publishers for hundreds of millions. Proves licensing IS technically possible at scale.
While major publishers get deals, millions of individual creators - bloggers, researchers, musicians, writers - remain excluded from AI licensing revenue streams.
Technical solution for ALL creators: distributed meta tag standard extends licensing benefits beyond major publishers to every content creator at web scale.
The pattern repeats: new technology will emerge, exploit creator content, claim "fair use" or technical impossibility of payment. But now we have the infrastructure ready.
Just as iTunes solved music and ContentID solved video, copyright.sh provides lasting technical infrastructure. Creators protected from day one of next disruption.
The people building the future of ethical AI licensing
Creator and technical founder focused on building fair infrastructure for AI-creator relationships. Previously built content platforms and AI applications.
We're building our founding team of engineers, legal experts, and creator advocates. Join us in creating the future of ethical AI licensing.
Be part of building a fair future for creators and AI. We're preparing to launch creator onboarding and are seeking forward-thinking AI companies to partner with.