Add Meta Tag to Your Content
Add one simple line of code to your website's HTML. This tells AI companies your content is protected and priced.
<meta name="ai-license" content="allow; distribution:public; price:0.50; payto:YOUR_ACCOUNT">
Stop AI companies from using your content for free. Start getting paid for your work. It's simpler than you think.
Different processes for creators and AI companies, but both lead to the same goal: fair compensation for quality content.
Add one simple line of code to your website's HTML. This tells AI companies your content is protected and priced.
<meta name="ai-license" content="allow; distribution:public; price:0.50; payto:YOUR_ACCOUNT">
Choose your price per 1,000 tokens (typically $0.50–$2.00). You control the pricing. AI companies can pay or get blocked.
# Popular rate ranges: # Blog posts: $0.50-$1.50 per 1K tokens # Research: $1.00-$10.00 per 1K tokens # Premium books: $30-$100 per 1K tokens
When AI companies use your content, we track it with HMAC verification, bill them, and deposit 100% of licensing fees directly to your account. AI companies pay an additional 20% platform fee.
Use our hosted MCP server at mcp.aposema.com, request a dedicated remote deployment through sales, or integrate directly via API. Self-hosted packages are coming soon.
# Option 1: Hosted MCP server
# Add mcp.aposema.com to your MCP config
# Option 2: Self-hosted (coming soon)
# Join the waitlist for early access
# Option 3: Direct API
curl -X POST https://api.aposema.com/register \
-d '{"company":"YourAI Corp"}'
Our system automatically discovers ai-license meta tags during content retrieval and verifies usage with HMAC signatures. Works with any AI platform.
# MCP handles license checking automatically
# Or use direct API for custom integrations
response = requests.post(
'https://api.aposema.com/verify',
headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer KEY'},
json={'url': url, 'tokens': count}
)
Transparent billing based on actual usage. Pay only for content you use, creators get compensated fairly, everyone wins.
Each layer builds on the one below. You choose your maximum—everything up to that level activates automatically.
Publisher-controlled. You choose your maximum layer. See full layer details
See how an AI assistant pays licensed sources in real-time while answering a user question
Before aposema.com: This content would have been used for free.
With aposema.com: Creator earned $0.62 in 0.3 seconds.
Explore our full documentation, check out pricing, or visit the creator hub.
A crawler arrives. It ignores your terms. Here's what each layer does.
robots.txt says no. Crawler ignores it.
Meta tags declare pricing. Crawler takes without paying.
Scraped data carries embedded license metadata that can't be stripped.
Scraped data contains verification markers and content fingerprints.
Connection slows. Crawl budget burns on generated pages.
Content includes attribution enforcement measures.
Or: get a license token and receive clean, fast, structured content at every layer.
Join the fight against AI content theft. It takes 5 minutes to protect your content and start earning.
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