"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 Collective announced the standard in September with backing from Yahoo, Ziff Davis, and O'Reilly Media."
"Though RSL alone can't block AI scrapers that don't pay for a license, the web infrastructure providers that support the standard can - a list that now includes Cloudflare and Akamai, in addition to Fastly. RSL's 1.0 release lets publishers block their content from AI-powered search features, like Google's AI Mode, while maintaining a presence in traditional search results. Currently, Google doesn't give websites an individual option to opt out of AI-powered features without booting them out of traditional search, too."
RSL 1.0 is an official open licensing standard that lets publishers require AI companies to pay for content scraped across the web. RSL extends robots.txt by enabling publishers to specify licensing and compensation rules for web crawlers. The RSL Collective launched the standard with backing from Yahoo, Ziff Davis, and O'Reilly Media. Web infrastructure providers such as Cloudflare, Akamai, and Fastly can enforce RSL rules and block noncompliant scrapers. RSL 1.0 allows publishers to opt out of AI-powered search features like Google's AI Mode while remaining in traditional search results, an option not currently provided by Google.
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