Fair Compensation for Publishers and Creators
The mission of the RSL Collective is to create the foundation for a fair internet content economy in the AI era. It ensures publishers and creators are compensated when their work fuels AI, just as they have been in past waves of media.
For decades, royalties have rewarded those who make the work. Authors are paid when books are sold, musicians when songs are streamed, and online publishers when their content is viewed. These royalties make creative businesses sustainable.
Neil Vogel, CEO People Inc.
“World class digital creators are needed to power the AI systems of the future; creators are essential to the success of the AI era and must be fairly compensated."
AI companies must follow the same principle to fairly compensate the millions of publishers and creators whose work they rely on. When an article, dataset, or image is used by an AI system to generate a response with a foundation model, power a RAG application, or respond to an AI agent, the content owner must receive fair royalties and attribution.
The RSL Collective licensing platform supports this principle through pay per inference royalties: enabling AI companies to compensate content owners each time their work generates an AI output—building sustainable royalty streams for publishers, while allowing AI companies to scale licensing costs with usage.
Pay per Inference royalties create a new, sustainable business model for the AI-first internet, where creativity is rewarded and AI companies have efficient access to the knowledge they need to build the next generation of AI applications.
Join the RSL Collective for free to help protect the open web, and receive fair royalties and attribution every time AI companies use your content to generate a result.
The Creator Bill of Rights for the AI-First Internet
Control
All content owners have the right to control who uses their content for AI training and for what purpose.
Representation
All content owners have the right to negotiate collectively with AI companies to determine fair compensation.
Royalties
All content owners have the right to receive royalties or attribution every time their content is used to generate an AI output.