Sphere Marketplace Launch: Ending IP Theft, Empowering Creators, and Unlocking Exclusive Off-Web Data for AI Companies

We are excited to announce the official launch of the Sphere Marketplace—the world's first real-time platform that ends IP and copyright theft while opening a new frontier for AI innovation. For years, creators have seen their work scraped without permission or payment, and AI companies have faced endless legal risks. Today, Sphere eliminates those problems and goes further: we enable AI companies to access high-quality data that has never been published on the live web—exclusive research, private datasets, archived reports, and proprietary insights that were previously unreachable.

The Sphere Marketplace lets creators sell their IP and data directly to AI companies, set their own prices, and get paid fairly. AI companies gain legal certainty, avoid lawsuits, and—most importantly—tap into valuable data sources beyond what web crawlers can ever reach.

No More IP Theft—Just Fair, Direct Transactions

The old model is broken: AI models trained on scraped content without consent, creators unpaid, and companies buried in copyright lawsuits. The Sphere Marketplace fixes this at the root:

• Creators sell IP directly: Journalists, researchers, publishers, and experts can upload articles, reports, datasets, or specialized knowledge to their Sphere profile and list it for sale—no middlemen, no unauthorized use.
• Creators set the price: You control the value of your work. Set a one-time price for perpetual use in training or chatbot citations—whether it's $100 for a niche analysis or $1,000 for a comprehensive dataset.
• AI companies get peace of mind: Every purchase comes with clear, perpetual-use licensing and full legal documentation. Buy once, use forever—legally and ethically.
• Exclusive access beyond the live web: Creators can sell previously unpublished material—internal research, private studies, archived investigations, proprietary datasets, expert analyses, and more—that has never appeared online.

How the Sphere Marketplace Works

Powered by Sphere's real-time distribution technology, the platform is fast, secure, and simple:

• Creators list content: Upload published or unpublished work to your Sphere AI Profile, set your price, and specify usage rights.
• AI companies discover and buy: Browse or search by topic, expertise, or data type. Purchase instantly—content is delivered via secure API for immediate integration.
• Sphere handles the rest: We verify content, process secure payments, and provide licensing paperwork. Sphere takes a fair 20% commission, leaving creators with 80% of every sale.

Early adopters are already thriving: independent researchers are monetizing decade-old private reports, while AI companies are incorporating exclusive industry insights that dramatically improve domain-specific performance.

Why This Changes Everything

• For creators: Turn your expertise into real income—whether it's public articles or private knowledge sitting in your archives.
• For AI companies: Build better, more accurate models with licensed, exclusive data while eliminating legal risk.
• For the ecosystem: A fair marketplace incentivizes creators to share more knowledge, making AI smarter and more diverse without relying on unethical scraping.

The Sphere Marketplace doesn't just end IP theft—it unlocks a new category of data that has been invisible to AI until now.

Join the Future of Ethical AI Data

The era of scraping is over. The era of direct, compensated, exclusive data access has begun.

• Creators: Sign up today, upload your content (published or private), set your prices, and start earning.
• AI companies: Explore the marketplace and secure the unique, off-web data your models need—legally and instantly.

Welcome to the Sphere Marketplace. The future of AI data is here—and it's fair, transparent, and exclusive.