RSL

RSL (Really Simple Licensing) was introduced in September 2025 as a way for publishers to express licensing terms for AI scraping and training. Now, with the 1.0 release finalized, the industry has a stable, "official" version to adopt. It offers a machine readable method for publishers to state how their content can be used and the conditions under which payment or contribution is required. Continue Reading →

Yesterday, a coalition of major publishers (including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, and Quora) announced their support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), a new open standard that lets web publishers set machine-readable licensing terms for AI crawlers. The initiative, led by RSS co-creator Eckart Walther and former Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds, aims to solve one of the web's most pressing problems: how to get AI companies to pay for the content they scrape. Continue Reading →