Major Publishers Launch Really Simple Licensing Standard for AI Content Scraping
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Emma Roth
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Summary
Major web publishers including Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. have announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL), a new open content licensing standard that enables publishers to set terms and pricing for AI companies scraping their content for training data. The standard builds upon the robots.txt protocol and aims to give publishers collective leverage in negotiating with AI developers.
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· 4 pulledA new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work.
Major brands like Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, and People Inc. announced support for Really Simple Licensing (RSL).
The RSL Standard builds upon the robots.txt protocol, which has long allowed publishers to provide instructions to web crawlers.
They're hoping the collective action gives them leverage to get AI companies on board.
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