Doug Leeds is the co-founder of RSL Standard, RSL Collective, and RSL Media, nonprofit initiatives building open licensing and consent infrastructure for the AI era. RSL is designed to make it easier for AI companies to license content at internet scale, while ensuring publishers, creators, and rights holders are fairly compensated for the value their work creates. RSL Media extends that framework to human creativity, identity, and likeness, giving artists and creatives a practical way to express whether and how their work, voice, image, or persona may be used by AI.

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Doug has spent his career at the intersection of media, technology, law, and company-building. He previously served as CEO of Dictionary.com and Ask.com, and founded and led IAC Publishing, the media company that is now People Inc. Earlier in his career, Doug was an Associate General Counsel at Yahoo. He also teaches leadership at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he works with students on persuasion, creativity, teamwork, and other useful human skills that AI has not yet replaced.