Really Simple Licensing spec makes AI orgs pay to scrape
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0 enables machine-readable rules for crawlers, allowing publishers to declare access, processing, and payment terms for web content.
A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
RSL 1.0 is an open licensing standard enabling publishers to dictate licensing and compensation rules for web crawlers and to block AI-powered search features.