How much will I earn by including my music in the AI license?
The economic compensation consists partly of a fixed license fee that gives the AI service the right to use your works to train an AI model. The fixed fee is determined by the size of the business, how many works are used that are represented by STIM, and is distributed equally among those works. There is therefore no fixed amount in advance; it is calculated individually for each licensee.
In addition to this, there is a continuous compensation in the form of a percentage share of the AI service’s income, for example from subscriptions and from the distribution of output to third parties. The higher the income of the service, the greater the compensation to STIM, and ultimately to the songwriters and music publishers.
Since the first license was signed in September 2025, there are currently no concrete examples of how large an individual payout from an AI service may be. This will become clearer as the system becomes established and more agreements are made.