Really Simple Licensing

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Really Simple Licensing
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AbbreviationRSL
First publishedSeptember 10, 2025 (2025-09-10)
Organization RSL Collective
Website rslstandard.org

Really Simple Licensing (RSL) is an open content licensing standard that allows web publishers to set terms for web crawlers gathering training data for generative AI use. It was launched on September 10, 2025 and is managed by the nonprofit RSL Collective, co-founded by RSS co-creator Eckart Walther and former Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds. Participating companies at launch include Reddit, Yahoo, and Medium. [1] [2] [3]

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Publishers can implement the RSL standard by adding licensing terms to their robots.txt files. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Brandom, Russell (September 10, 2025). "RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing". TechCrunch . Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  2. ↑ Roth, Emma (September 10, 2025). "The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up". The Verge . Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  3. ↑ Shanklin, Will (September 10, 2025). "Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping". Engadget . Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  4. ↑ Belanger, Ashley (September 10, 2025). "Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions". Ars Technica . Retrieved September 10, 2025.
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