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True today: Licenses include the rights the contracting holders warranted, a named manifest, and a disclosure pack your counsel can use for EU AI Act Art. 53 and CA AB 2013 filings. Those statutes still bind the developer. Indemnity, if any, is only as written in the signed license.
Past use: We can structure a going-forward license and a covenant not to sue over past use from the rights holders who sign, limited to the named works. Neither one binds a rights holder who did not sign, and neither one satisfies the developer's regulatory obligations.
A 20-minute scoping call produces a proposal within 5 business days. Most Credtent licensing deals close in 2 to 6 weeks, depending on the complexity of the content scope and how many rights holders are involved. Larger or multi-vertical corpora sit at the longer end of that range; single-catalog deals close faster.
True today: Licenses include the rights the contracting holders warranted, a named manifest, and a disclosure pack your counsel can use for EU AI Act Art. 53 and CA AB 2013 filings. Those statutes still bind the developer. Indemnity, if any, is only as written in the signed license.
Because the legal exposure is material and growing. Multiple active cases are litigating the use of scraped training data, and regulatory disclosure requirements now create a documentation trail that makes undocumented scraping visible. Opt-out mechanisms also mean that ignoring a registered opt-out becomes a documented non-compliance record. True today: Licenses include the rights the contracting holders warranted, a named manifest, and a disclosure pack your counsel can use for EU AI Act Art. 53 and CA AB 2013 filings. Those statutes still bind the developer. Indemnity, if any, is only as written in the signed license.
No. Credtent functions as a licensing agent, not a publisher or co-owner. You keep full IP ownership of everything you list. Credtent holds only limited representation rights for AI licensing, and you can terminate that representation at any time. Listing your catalog does not transfer copyright, exclusivity, or any ownership interest to Credtent.
Under Credtent's standard terms, each licensing deal Credtent closes routes 85% of gross revenue directly to the rights holders and data providers whose content was licensed. Credtent retains the remaining 15% to cover its platform, legal infrastructure, compliance tooling, and operations. The split is applied to gross revenue, not net.
Credtent distributes royalties quarterly. Each distribution comes with usage reports detailing which licensees used your catalog and at what volume, so you can see exactly which deals generated your share. Under Credtent's standard terms, payments follow the 85/15 split, with 85% of gross licensing revenue going to you as the rights holder.
Yes. During catalog registration with Credtent you set parameters across verticals, use cases, and application types. You can exclude specific licensees or whole categories, and every deal requires your approval before it executes. No license is granted on your content without your sign-off, so you retain control over who trains on your work and for what purpose.
Credtent accepts text, audio, video, image, and structured data across the education, healthcare, sports, entertainment, and media verticals. Credtent operates a multimodal Independent Creative Registry, so a rights holder can register mixed-format catalogs in one place rather than across separate single-format registries.
Yes. Registering a work for the industry-wide opt-out with Credtent costs nothing, and the opt-out is not a trial. Credtent does not plan to charge for the free opt-out.
When you register works with Credtent and select opt-out, Credtent records your reservation of rights and delivers the notice to AI companies, with a dated record of when it went out. Rather than relying on each platform's separate toggle, you set the preference once with Credtent.
Yes. Opting out through Credtent is fully reversible. You can update your preferences at any time to enable licensing, with no retroactive fees and no penalties. A work that is opted out today can be made licensable tomorrow, and one that is licensable can be withdrawn to opt-out, so your position is never locked in.
Credtent relays and records your opt-out but does not enforce it. Credtent delivers the opt-out notice to each AI company, records the delivery and any response, and follows up at 30, 60, and 90 days, recording each follow-up. Opt-Out Premium for Rights Holders enrolls their works in Credtent's periodic AI model audits. If an AI company ignores your opt-out, that dated record of notice, responses, and follow-ups, together with audit results for enrolled works, is evidence you can use if you choose to pursue action.
Credtent is a neutral licensing infrastructure platform that connects AI companies with rights-cleared, provenance-verified training data. Credtent operates a multimodal Independent Creative Registry where creators and rights holders register works for opt-out, licensing, or both. Credtent is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. It acts as a neutral agent between content owners and AI companies: it owns no content it licenses, takes no equity in either side, and builds no AI models of its own.
Under its standard terms, Credtent retains 15% of gross licensing revenue on each deal it closes, and the other 85% flows to the rights holders and data providers whose content was licensed. Creators can opt out for free. Individual creators who sign up by December 31, 2026 can license their work for $49 a year. The regular price becomes $99 in 2027, and creators who sign up during the promotion keep $49 a year through 2028 while their subscription stays active. A creator who lapses or cancels rejoins at the regular price. Rights holders can choose Opt-Out Premium for Rights Holders, which enrolls their works in Credtent's periodic AI model audits without licensing, or Rights-Holder Licensing; each starts at $299 a year.
No. Credtent does not build models, take equity positions, or share data outside of licensed transactions.
Credtent Inc. is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. Its charter names two public benefits: to empower and protect creators of original works in the marketplace of artificial intelligence, and to promote the ethical and credible use and deployment of AI. Its charter requires Credtent to be managed in a manner that balances stockholders' financial interests, the best interests of those materially affected by its conduct, and those public benefits.
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