If you are an AI artist, content creator, or AI tool developer, this article might be worth spending two minutes to read.

Recently, there has been discussion in the community about a protocol called Gen-IP. Its core logic is quite interesting—it turns each of your created images and works into a tradable, licensable, and continuously revenue-generating "micro IP asset." It sounds a bit abstract, but the underlying design actually addresses a practical pain point in the AI creation era.

**You Might Belong to One of These Four Groups**

The first group includes AI artists, designers, and illustrators. If you use tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or others for visual creation, the ownership and commercial rights of your generated works are often disputed by platforms and users. Gen-IP aims to give you a clear "work ID card."

The second group is AI writers—including copywriters, novelists, and scriptwriters. Your textual content also faces issues of being used arbitrarily.

The third and fourth groups are more professional developers: LoRA/Workflow creators and Prompt Engineers. These two groups are actually creating the "generation capability itself," which has even higher commercial value.

**The Practical Role of This Protocol**

From a revenue perspective, the mechanism roughly works like this:

Once your work is certified with Gen-IP, others must obtain authorization for commercial use. If a brand wants to use your original work for branding or marketing materials, you can directly license it and receive a fee. More interestingly, when others generate new content based on your work through secondary creation, you can automatically receive a share of the proceeds—equivalent to your creativity being continuously "borrowed," allowing you to keep earning.

This model isn't new in Web3, but applying it to AI content is still relatively fresh.

**Imaginative Space for the Ecosystem**

Currently, some AI content platforms (similar to creative sites like Civitai, Lexica) are considering integrating the Gen-IP protocol. Once integrated, creators uploading works will automatically receive copyright certification and revenue sharing mechanisms. In other words, you won't need to manually manage each license; the platform will handle it automatically.

In the long run, social platforms like X are also experimenting with supporting the display of "Gen-IP licensing status." If someone uses your content without authorization, the system will automatically flag or remove it—turning copyright protection from moral persuasion into a technical enforcement.

Anyway, this system at least addresses the most headache-inducing issues for creators in the AI era: who owns your work, how it can be used commercially, and how to share the profits. If you're interested, you can try it out yourself.