"A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), an open content licensing standard that enables publishers to outline how bots should pay to scrape their sites for AI training data. They're hoping the collective action gives them leverage to get AI companies on board."
"The RSL Standard builds upon the robots.txt protocol, which has long allowed publishers to provide instructions to web crawlers about what parts of their site they can and can't access. But instead of just saying yes or no to specific bots, websites can now add licensing and royalty terms to their robots.txt file. They can also embed the terms in online books, videos, and training datasets that they may want compensation for."
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) enables web publishers to set licensing and royalty terms that require bots to pay for scraping content used to train AI systems. Major publishers including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for RSL to give publishers collective leverage when negotiating with AI companies. The standard extends the robots.txt protocol by allowing sites to add licensing and royalty terms to their robots.txt files rather than only permitting or blocking crawlers. Publishers can also embed RSL terms within online books, videos, and training datasets to assert compensation expectations. Behind RSL is a new rights organization called the RSL Collective, led by Eckart Walther and Doug Leeds.
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