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SaveTheCreators

The people who make the things you love are being pushed out of their own work.

SaveTheCreators is a movement to change that -- built by creators, open to everyone who believes creative work deserves fair treatment.

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Seven Principles for a Fair Creative Economy

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United Creator Voice

Unite all creators across disciplines into one movement. No creative field fights alone when we stand together.

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Technology in Service of Creativity

Tools that serve creators, not extract from them. Technology should amplify human creativity, not replace or exploit it.

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Fair Value Exchange

Economic value flows to creators, not intermediaries. The people who make the work deserve fair compensation for it.

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Creator Sovereignty & Autonomy

Creators control how their work is used. Consent is not optional -- it is a fundamental right.

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Transparent & Accessible Ecosystem

Clear terms, fair play throughout. Creators deserve to understand the systems that profit from their work.

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Global Community, Local Impact

Worldwide reach with local relevance. Creative rights are universal, but the battles are fought in every community.

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Legacy & Preservation

Preserve works for future generations with rights intact. Creative legacies must outlast the platforms that host them.

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Our Story

The Numbers Tell a Story Nobody Wants to Hear

Across 43 creative disciplines -- from musicians and animators to journalists, game developers, and photographers -- the same pattern repeats. Platforms extract the revenue. Algorithms bury independent work. AI reproduces what creators spent years learning, without consent or compensation. This is not a downturn. It is a structural failure affecting every creative field on earth.

  • 42% drop in author median income over a decade, to $6,080/year. 73% of digital creators earn below $30,000.
  • 90% of streams go to the top 1% of musicians. Twitch income inequality has a Gini coefficient of 0.93.
  • 204K entertainment jobs projected to be cut by AI. 26% of illustrators are already losing work to generative tools.
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Creators Own the Value. It's Time to Act Like It.

For decades, creators signed away their power because intermediaries controlled distribution. That game is over. Musicians, writers, designers, filmmakers, coders -- every creative discipline holds inherent value that platforms, studios, and algorithms depend on. SaveTheCreators exists to organize that power: not by begging for a seat at the table, but by building our own.

  • 521 sourced evidence items across 43 disciplines confirm this is one crisis, not forty-three separate ones.
  • $8.8T in global value created by open-source maintainers. 60% of them are unpaid.
  • 11 mo SAG-AFTRA struck over AI consent protections. Dozens of guilds are fighting the same fight -- and winning when they coordinate.
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Research. Advocacy. Tools. All in One Place.

We are building the connective tissue the creative economy has never had -- a research-backed advocacy hub that links organizations, surfaces data, and gives creators a shared platform for collective action. We connect the work already happening across guilds, unions, legal advocates, and grassroots movements so it hits harder together.

  • 73% of our evidence base comes from 2024-2025, drawn from peer-reviewed studies, government data, and investigative journalism.
  • 246 distinct creator types catalogued, from stop-motion animators to cartographic illustrators.
  • 5 major platform gatekeepers documented across multiple disciplines with specific extraction patterns.
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The Advocacy Hub

No one else aggregates creative advocacy like this. The Hub maps 1,650+ creator types across 43 disciplines, connecting the research, the organizations, and the campaigns fighting for fair treatment -- all searchable, all sourced, all in one place. Whether you are a voice actor tracking AI consent legislation or a textile artist fighting design theft, the Hub puts the relevant evidence and allies at your fingertips.

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Join the Movement

Stand with creators worldwide. Membership is free and always will be.

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  • Advocacy Hub access when available
  • Community forum access when available
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Creator Stories

Mara T.

Freelance Illustrator

“I found my artwork in three different AI training datasets. Nobody asked. Nobody paid. My style is being reproduced by tools that learned from me without my consent.”

James K.

Independent Musician

“I release music on every major platform. Last year I earned $247 from 80,000 streams. The algorithm decides who gets heard, and independent artists are not part of the plan.”

Sofia R.

Documentary Filmmaker

“Festivals want premieres, platforms want exclusives, and distributors want the rights forever. By the time everyone takes their cut, there is nothing left for the person who made the film.”

Devon L.

Open-Source Developer

“My library is a dependency in Fortune 500 products. I maintain it on weekends. Companies worth billions build on my work, and I have never seen a dollar from any of them.”

Priya N.

Voice Actor

“A studio cloned my voice from old session recordings and used it in new projects without telling me. My voice is my instrument. I should decide how it is used.”

Carlos M.

Game Developer

“After fifteen years in the industry, I have been laid off three times in two years. Studios post record profits, then cut the teams who built those games.”

Anya W.

Photojournalist

“My photographs are scraped and reshared millions of times. The outlets that publish them pay less every year. The ones that steal them pay nothing at all.”

These stories are fictionalized composites based on documented patterns across creative industries.

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