A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
The Verge AI·December 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM·
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An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 - or RSL for short - gives publishers the ability to dictate licensing and compensation rules to the web crawlers that visit their sites. The RSL […]