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The Billion-Dollar Licensing Rush: What 32 Major AI Deals Tell Us About the Future of Content

The numbers are in, and they’re staggering: AI companies have signed more content licensing deals in the past six months than in the previous two years combined. Between July and...

Copyright.sh Team • December 16, 2025

The Future of Workers Unions: From Job Protection to Data Ownership

The Future of Workers Unions: From Job Protection to Data Ownership Musicians don’t work for Spotify, but they get paid every time their songs stream. Actors don’t work for Netflix,...

Copyright.sh Team • November 25, 2025

The Price Discovery Problem: A Publisher’s Guide to Setting AI Licensing Rates

The real question every publisher asks: “If I put a price tag on my content for AI companies, what should it be?” This isn’t an abstract market design problem. It’s...

Copyright.sh Team • November 25, 2025

WordPress Plugin Launch: One-Click AI Licensing

43% of the web runs on WordPress. Today, any of those sites can add AI licensing in 60 seconds. The WordPress Plugin Is Live After months of development and testing,...

Copyright.sh Team • October 28, 2025

HTTP 402: The Payment Required Response That Actually Works

HTTP status codes are the internet’s traffic signals. 200 means “OK, here’s your content.” 404 means “Not found.” But one code has been waiting 25 years for its moment: 402...

Copyright.sh Team • September 15, 2025

From Scraping to Licensing: The Future of AI Content

The open web is being mined, not monetized. Every article, image, and dataset has already been scraped. But the next phase isn’t training—it’s inference. Your content now answers questions for...

Copyright.sh Team • August 8, 2025

The Micropayment Trap: Why Subscription Models Win

For 30 years, entrepreneurs have tried to make micropayments work. Every attempt has failed. Copyright.sh learned from that history. The Micropayment Death Spiral The promise sounds perfect: pay $0.001 per...

One Meta Tag to Control AI: Technical Implementation Guide

Technical Empowerment for Content Creators Define what bots can read, learn, or quote—then track and monetize it with a single line of code. Machine-readable rights keep content discoverable and enforceable...

Why Meta Tags Are the Future of Content Rights

Content licensing for AI shouldn’t require lawyers, contracts, or complex negotiations. It should be as simple as adding a line of HTML. The Problem with Traditional Licensing When Getty Images...