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Why AI companies should be paying you, what on-chain provenance actually does, and what an independent creator can do about it. Written in plain English. No jargon.
Jun 13, 2026 · 7 min read
A sourced reference to the major publisher-AI deals signed between 2023 and 2026 — News Corp, The Atlantic, Reddit, Vox, Axel Springer, FT, Wiley, and the rest — with deal values, structures, and what the comparables imply for independent creators.
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Jun 13, 2026 · 9 min read
There is no Google Search Console for ChatGPT — but there are five concrete ways to find out whether OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Perplexity have used your website for training data. Most take under ten minutes.
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Jun 13, 2026 · 9 min read
The practical playbook for licensing your archive to AI labs — what they want, what they'll pay, who to talk to, and the boring legal mechanics that turn a five-year body of work into a real cheque.
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Jun 13, 2026 · 8 min read
A practical, current guide to keeping OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, ByteDance, Meta, Apple, and the other AI crawlers out of your content — what works, what doesn't, and the one-page check that tells you what's already been taken.
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Jun 13, 2026 · 5 min read
A practical guide to what AI companies actually pay for newsletters, podcasts, video archives, and blogs — with real comparables, the math, and a free tool to get a price range for your own work in under a minute.
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Jun 13, 2026 · 8 min read
A practical, sourced reference for the price AI labs are paying for training data in 2026 — text, images, video, audio, and code — with deal comparables, per-unit rates, and the factors that move a number five-fold in either direction.
Read →May 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Most independent creators see their old work as a sunk cost. AI companies see it as raw material they need. The gap between those two views is the opportunity.
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May 10, 2026 · 5 min read
The current model — scrape everything, settle in court later — isn't going to last. Here's what the working version of AI content licensing actually looks like.
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May 4, 2026 · 4 min read
It's not about crypto. It's about having a record of the deal that doesn't disappear when the company that issued it does.
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