Long-form content you hold the training rights to is what AI data buyers ask publishers for.

Academic, professional and textbook publishers, courseware and e-learning companies, medical education, magazines and literary publishers: rights and licensing leads deciding whether a catalogue can be licensed for AI training.

Mercor's listing for publishers and education companies puts a deal at $35,000 to $370,000 ("Depends on catalog size and rights").

AIData.Broker represents you in selling it: we value your data against public prices, describe it without your name to every buyer whose published rules it meets, at the same time, and help you negotiate the terms, for holders based in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Our fee is 12% of the first $250,000 a sale pays you, and nothing if no sale closes.

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buyers quoted below on what they want from companies like yours

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kinds of record below that the valuation measures or values

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rights questions to settle before a buyer sees a record

What companies like yours hold

What you typically have, where it sits, and whether the valuation can measure or value it. Buyers price what exists together, over how many years, and how well it links.

  • Books and long-form text
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    Textbooks, monographs, journals and essays in XML or EPUB pipelines.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your documents exportCounted with documents and knowledge
  • Courses and lectures
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    Course material from the LMS with its lecture recordings and transcripts.
    How the valuation reads it
    Describe it in your offer
  • Educational video
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    Medical, science and professional training video with transcripts.
    How the valuation reads it
    Describe it in your offer
  • Rights records
    Where it sits, and what the evidence shows
    The contracts that say which titles the company may license, and for what.
    How the valuation reads it
    Measured from your documents exportCounted with documents and knowledge

What buyers say they want from companies like you

In their own words, from their own pages or from reporting on what they bought. Each opens its source.

  • “License long-form content you hold the rights to: journals, textbooks, courses and video.”
    Mercor, its listing "Publisher or Education Company"Its own page, 27 Oct 2026
  • “Content the company holds the rights to license for AI training. Long-form text, courses or video, not short articles alone. Hundreds of titles or hours”
    Mercor, what the listing asks forIts own page, 27 Oct 2026
  • “Recent research papers that aren't open access. STEM textbooks and lecture recordings. Medical and science educational video with transcripts. Fiction, essays and teaching writing. Content in several languages”
    Mercor, what it would also likeIts own page, 27 Oct 2026

What raises the value

  • Recent material that is not open access.
  • Science, medicine, law and finance, where expert writing is scarce.
  • Several languages.
  • Clean rights: contracts that grant the company AI training rights for each title.
  • History the listing measures in its own words: "An established catalog".

What lowers the value

  • What the listing rules out: "Content distributed under someone else's license", "Content that is already open access".
  • Short articles alone.
  • Titles whose author contracts do not cover AI training.

A line that quotes a buyer names it. The others are our checklist, drawn from the factors buyers state in general: no buyer publishes how much each one moves a price. How often each factor matters across 156 kinds of data.

The rights to settle first

These stop a sale more often than price does. Each can be settled before any buyer sees a record.

The full rights checklist
  • Author and contributor contracts decide what the publisher may license: many older contracts grant print and electronic rights but say nothing of training, and some authors have objected publicly.
  • Content licensed in from others, and anything under a non-commercial or no-derivatives licence, cannot be passed on.

What is already on offer from companies like you

Read this morning from the brokers' and marketplaces' own catalogues. A buyer compares your records with these; settled rights, more years and more linked systems are what set one apart.

Every lot on offer

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lots on offer like yours

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of history in the middle of them

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say the rights are settled

What holders like you ask

What is a publisher's data worth to an AI buyer?
Mercor's listing for publishers and education companies puts a deal at $35,000 to $370,000 ("Depends on catalog size and rights"). It asks for 10–500 employees (Anywhere; multilingual content welcome). What moves an offer within the range is what the listing names: how complete the records are, how far back they go and whether you can license them.
What exactly does the buyer ask for?
Mercor's listing asks for "Content the company holds the rights to license for AI training", "Long-form text, courses or video, not short articles alone", "Hundreds of titles or hours". It would also like "Recent research papers that aren't open access", "STEM textbooks and lecture recordings", "Medical and science educational video with transcripts", "Fiction, essays and teaching writing", "Content in several languages". It rules out "Content distributed under someone else's license", "Content that is already open access".
What will a buyer ask us first?
Mercor's listing names its first questions: "What do you hold the training rights to?", "How many titles, courses or hours?", "Which subjects and languages?", "Is any of it already licensed for AI training?". Have the answers before you start.
How do we sell through you?
Start with the valuation. It reads what you hold against public prices and against the rules each buyer publishes; then either we run the sale for you, describing your records without your name to every buyer whose rules they meet, or, where a buyer's own programme fits you better, we introduce you to it, free for you. The holder pays us a fee fixed in the mandate, and only if a sale closes. In a sale we run no buyer pays us, so our fee depends on what you are paid, not on which buyer pays it. A buyer pays us only if you choose to apply to it through its own referral programme, and you see that amount in writing before you choose.

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