Really Simple Licensing: Open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet
RSL is an open standard that lets publishers publish machine-readable licensing terms for their content, covering attribution, pay-per-crawl and pay-per-inference compensation. Its site lists supporters including Cloudflare, Reddit, Yahoo, Ziff Davis, Vox Media, O'Reilly Media, Fastly and Creative Commons. It matters because it gives publishers a way to set terms for AI use at web scale instead of only blocking crawlers.
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- Hacker News (AI)2026-10-26 06:30