License your work for AI training. Your terms, your price, your proof.
Photographers, writers, musicians, 3D artists, and filmmakers can license their work for AI training through eeko instead of having it taken for free. Each item you list carries one clear permission, a price you set, and a signed record that proves what you made and when. Ownership never leaves your hands. When an AI team licenses it, you are paid.
What is licensing your work for AI training?
Licensing your work for AI training is the act of granting an AI team permission to train or evaluate a model on specific files you created, for a named purpose and a fixed term, in exchange for a fee. It is the same mechanism a stock library or a music publisher has used for decades, pointed at a new kind of buyer. The work stays yours. The buyer gets a scoped right, written down, with an end date.
The reason this matters now is simple. The models eeko builds for regulated enterprises, and the models the large labs train, have already consumed most of what sits on the open web. What is left, and what is actually scarce, is human-made work with a clean chain of title: the photographer who shot ten thousand frames of industrial interiors, the composer with a drive of unreleased stems, the studio with a library of rigged characters. AI teams will pay for that, provided someone can prove it was made by a person and that the person agreed.
That proof is what eeko's data practice adds. Every item you list through the eeko AI training data practice is fingerprinted, screened for human origin, tied to your consent and your terms, and issued a signed record with an independent timestamp. Buyers see a catalogue of verified work. You see a ledger of what was licensed, to whom, and for how much. It is the same verification we apply to the verified human data we deliver to our own enterprise clients.
Three AI training permissions, and you choose per item.
Each file you list gets exactly one setting. The setting is written into its signed record, published in its metadata, and honored by every buyer in the catalogue. You can change it later, and a new record is issued when you do.
- Proof of authorship without any offer to sell
- Reservation signal in metadata and headers
- Switch to licensed at any time
- Per-item or per-collection pricing
- Non-exclusive, exclusive, or evaluation-only
- Decline any buyer, for any reason
- Attribution preserved in the record
- Terms of the grant stated plainly
- Revocable for future use, not past licences
A signed record that travels with the file.
A listing is not a ruling on who owns what. It is independent, timestamped proof of authorship, of the date you declared it, and of the terms you chose, plus the paperwork to act when those terms are ignored.
What eeko attaches to every licensed item
- Fingerprint — an exact cryptographic hash and a perceptual fingerprint, so a copy, a crop, or a re-encode can still be matched back to the original.
- Signed provenance — a record signed by eeko that names the work, the creator, the permission, and the price, re-issued whenever any of them change.
- Independent timestamp — anchored outside our own systems, so nobody, including us, can backdate a declaration.
- Human-origin checks — generator signatures, C2PA and IPTC fields, and a review by a person, so buyers know the work was made by you and not by a model.
- Consent and releases — model and property releases attached per item wherever a person or a private place appears.
- Licence terms — use, term, exclusivity, and restrictions, written in plain language and recorded against the item.
- Hash-chained audit trail — every view, licence, and change logged in sequence so the history cannot be quietly edited.
- Signed delivery receipt — when a buyer takes delivery, a receipt lists every item by fingerprint, so both sides know exactly what changed hands.
Buyers get the same record. That is why they pay: a licensed item from the eeko catalogue can be shown to a regulator, an auditor, or a court with its full history intact.
Creators who already hold what AI teams are missing.
If a person made it, you hold the rights, and nobody has published it at scale, there is probably a buyer. These are the catalogues we are asked for most.
From a folder on your drive to a paid licence.
Nothing is uploaded, published, or offered to anyone until you have seen the terms. A person on the eeko data team reads every listing.
Scraped for free, or licensed on record.
A crawler took it years ago. There is no record of your terms, no fee, no way to prove the file was yours before it appeared in a model's output, and no one to send the invoice to.
- Unpaid No licence, no fee, no statement
- Unproven No timestamped evidence of authorship
- Unattributed Your name is nowhere in the pipeline
- Unenforceable Nothing to point to when terms are ignored
Each item has a fingerprint, a signed record, a declared permission, and a price. Buyers who want verified, consented data license it from the catalogue and sign for delivery. You hold the proof and the earnings statement.
- Paid A fee per licence, on terms you set
- Proven Independent timestamp and hash on every item
- Attributed Your name in the record buyers receive
- Enforceable Evidence ready for takedowns and claims
What AI licensing for creators looks like in practice.
Licensing your work for AI: creator questions.
What does it mean to license your work for AI training?
Licensing your work for AI training means granting an AI team permission to use specific files you made, for a named purpose such as training or evaluating a model, for a set period, in exchange for a fee. Ownership stays with you. The licence is a contract that spells out the use, the term, whether it is exclusive, and what the buyer may not do. At eeko every licensed item also carries a signed provenance record, so the permission is attached to the file rather than buried in an email thread.
How much can a creator earn licensing work for AI training?
It depends on what you make, how much of it exists, and how scarce it is. A set of a few thousand well-shot photographs in a niche subject, hours of multitrack recordings, or a catalogue of rigged 3D assets can each command a meaningful fee because AI teams cannot generate them and cannot legally scrape them. You set the per-item or per-collection price. Our data team tells you honestly where that price sits against current demand before anything is listed, and non-exclusive terms let you license the same work repeatedly.
Do I give up copyright or ownership of my work?
No. You keep every right you hold today. A licence is permission for a defined use, not a transfer. Buyers receive the right to train or evaluate a model on the licensed items for the agreed term; they do not receive the right to resell your files, publish them, or claim them as their own. If the licence is non-exclusive you can license the same work again, sell prints, publish it, or take it down from our catalogue whenever you wish.
What if my photos or footage show recognizable people?
We only offer work containing recognizable people once an AI-use release exists for each of them. Releases for models and property can be attached item by item during listing. If some of your work has releases and some does not, tell us; we will list the covered items and help you collect releases for the rest where it is practical, or leave those items reserved.
Can I change my mind after I set a permission?
Yes. The AI training setting on any item can be changed at any time, and a fresh signed record is issued with the new terms and a new timestamp. The one thing a change cannot do is cancel a licence a buyer has already paid for; that licence runs to the end of its agreed term and then expires. Nothing is ever sold without your prior approval of the price and the terms.
Does registering my work stop AI companies from scraping it?
No technical measure can physically stop a crawler that chooses to ignore the rules, and we will not pretend otherwise. What the record does is state your terms in every place a responsible system looks, including embedded metadata and machine-readable reservation signals, and give you a timestamped, fingerprinted proof of what you made and on what terms. That proof is what makes a takedown, a licence claim, or a legal complaint credible.
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