Your Documentation Powers AI Answers

Every time an assistant cites your guides or API docs, you deserve a royalty. Get paid for inference-time usage, not just training.

GitHub Docs

Stack Overflow

ReadTheDocs

GitBook

Confluence

Notion

The Hidden Value of Technical Knowledge

$0.08

avg per 1K tokens

API Documentation

$0.06

avg per 1K tokens

How-To Guides

$0.04

avg per 1K tokens

Code Comments

From Free Labor to Fair Pay

See how AI transforms your documentation work into training data - without compensation

Your Original API Documentation:

                    /**
                    * Creates a new user account with email validation
                    * @param {string} email - User's email address
                    * @param {string} password - Plain text password (will be hashed)
                    * @param {Object} options - Additional user options
                    * @returns {Promise<User>} The created user objec
                    * @throws {ValidationError} When email format is invalid
                    * @example
                    * const user = await createUser('john@example.com', 'securePass123', {
                    * firstName: 'John',
                    * newsletter: true
                    * });
                    */
                    async function createUser(email, password, options = {}) {
                    // Validate email format before processing
                    if (!isValidEmail(email)) {
                    throw new ValidationError('Invalid email format');
                    }
                    // ... rest of implementation
                    }

❌ Before copyright.sh

AI Company: "How do I create a user with email validation?"

ChatGPT: [Uses your exact documentation pattern and code examples to generate response]

Your compensation: $0.00

✅ With copyright.sh

AI Company: Pays $0.08 per 1K tokens before using your documentation

You: Get real-time notification and payment for each usage

Your compensation: $0.24 for this example

Every Type of Technical Content Pays

From API docs to troubleshooting guides - all your expertise has value

API Documentation

Rate: $0.80-$1.50/1K tokens
Function descriptions, parameters, examples. The foundation of how AI learns to write code. Premium rates for comprehensive docs.

How-To Tutorials

Rate: $0.60-$1.20/1K tokens
Step-by-step guides, installation instructions, configuration tutorials. Essential for AI understanding of practical implementation.

Stack Overflow Answers

Rate: $0.50-$1.00/1K tokens
Problem-solving explanations, code solutions, debugging help. High-value training data for AI problem-solving capabilities.

Troubleshooting Guides

Rate: $0.70-$1.30/1K tokens
Error resolution, diagnostic steps, fix procedures. Critical for AI understanding of common problems and solutions.

Architecture Documentation

Rate: $1.00-$2.00/1K tokens
System design, infrastructure guides, architectural decisions. High-level thinking that AI needs for complex development tasks.

Best Practices Guides

Rate: $0.75-$1.40/1K tokens
Coding standards, security practices, performance optimization. The wisdom that makes AI-generated code actually good.

Technical Writer Success Stories

Real developers and writers earning from their documented expertise

Open-Source Maintainer

Knowledge Base: 80 API docs & tutorials for a popular JS library
Typical Licensing Share: $450 / month
Community-driven docs that every coding assistant relies on.

Startup DevRel Team

Knowledge Base: 200 how-to guides & snippets
Typical Licensing Share: $380 / month
Developer onboarding tutorials turn into recurring AI royalties.

Indie Course Author

Knowledge Base: 50 deep-dive architecture articles
Typical Licensing Share: $520 / month
Best-practice write-ups become premium training data for AI models.

Platform Integration Guides

Protect your technical content wherever you publish it

GitBook / ReadTheDocs

Header injection:

<meta name="ai-license" content="allow; distribution:public; price:0.80; payto:YOUR_ACCOUNT">

Add to your documentation template for automatic protection of all pages.

Confluence / Notion

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GitHub Pages

Jekyll/Hugo integration:

# _config.yml
head_tags: |
  <meta name="ai-license" content="allow; distribution:public; price:0.75; payto:YOUR_ACCOUNT">

Custom Documentation Sites

Static site generators:

// Add to base template
<meta name="ai-license" content="allow; distribution:public; price:0.85; payto:YOUR_ACCOUNT">

API Reference Tools

Swagger/OpenAPI integration:

swagger: "3.0.0"
info:
  title: "Protected API"
  x-ai-license: "allow;distribution:public;price:1.00;payto:YOUR_ACCOUNT"

Stack Overflow Integration

Profile-based protection:

Add your copyright.sh ID to your Stack Overflow profile bio. We're working on direct platform integration for seamless answer protection.

Setup Guide

The Documentation Revolution

Your technical knowledge built the foundation for AI development. Now it's time for AI to pay for that foundation.

1B+

Lines of documented code training AI models

$0

What technical writers earned from AI training (until now)

$500+

Monthly potential for experienced technical writers

Demo: AI Licenses Technical Docs On-the-Fly

Watch an assistant license a flight-manual excerpt before answering a question

Aviation-Checklis Reference Pipeline

$ user_prompt="How do I secure a FastAPI endpoint with OAuth?"

Fetching authoritative documentation…

GET https://docs.opensourcehub.org/fastapi/security/oauth (350 tokens)

Found ai-license meta tag: action=allow; price=0.07/1K tokens; payto=opensourcehub-account

✓ Licensed – cost: $0.0245

POST /api/payments

Total licensed tokens: 350

Total cost: $0.0245

Creators paid: $0.0245 (100%) – $0.0220 maintainers / $0.0025 tech-writer

Platform fee (paid by AI company): $0.0037 (15%)

Answering user…

✓ Response delivered in 1.2 s

Split: 90 % to project maintainers, 10 % to contributing tech-writers – lightning-fas payout.

Your Documentation Powers AI Answers

The Hidden Value of Technical Knowledge

From Free Labor to Fair Pay

Your Original API Documentation:

❌ Before copyright.sh

✅ With copyright.sh

Every Type of Technical Content Pays

API Documentation

How-To Tutorials

Stack Overflow Answers

Troubleshooting Guides

Architecture Documentation

Best Practices Guides

Technical Writer Success Stories

Open-Source Maintainer

Startup DevRel Team

Indie Course Author

Platform Integration Guides

GitBook / ReadTheDocs

Confluence / Notion

GitHub Pages

Custom Documentation Sites

API Reference Tools

Stack Overflow Integration

The Documentation Revolution

1B+

$0

$500+

Turn Your Technical Expertise Into Revenue

Demo: AI Licenses Technical Docs On-the-Fly

After Microsoft’s $357B Loss: Why Content Is the Next Bottleneck

Your Documentation Powers AI Answers

The Hidden Value of Technical Knowledge

From Free Labor to Fair Pay

Your Original API Documentation:

❌ Before copyright.sh

✅ With copyright.sh

Every Type of Technical Content Pays

API Documentation

How-To Tutorials

Stack Overflow Answers

Troubleshooting Guides

Architecture Documentation

Best Practices Guides

Technical Writer Success Stories

Open-Source Maintainer

Startup DevRel Team

Indie Course Author

Platform Integration Guides

GitBook / ReadTheDocs

Confluence / Notion

GitHub Pages

Custom Documentation Sites

API Reference Tools

Stack Overflow Integration

The Documentation Revolution

1B+

$0

$500+

Turn Your Technical Expertise Into Revenue

Demo: AI Licenses Technical Docs On-the-Fly

After Microsoft’s $357B Loss: Why Content Is the Next Bottleneck

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