[Governance] RSL 1.0 released

[Joly MacFie]

https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-1-specification-2025

Today, the RSL Technical Steering Committee, comprised of leading Internet,
media, and technology companies, announced the publication of the official
standards specification for Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0
<https://rslstandard.org/rsl>, the first licensing standard to protect
content in the AI era.

Developed as a collaborative effort between the RSL Collective and a broad
community of publishers, platforms, and open standards organizations,
including Yahoo, Ziff Davis, and O’Reilly Media, RSL 1.0 is an
industry-first, open web standard for publishers and creators to define
transparent, machine-readable usage and licensing terms for the content on
which AI systems rely to fuel future innovation.

Based on the widely adopted RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard, RSL
1.0 augments the simple yes/no blocking rules of robots.txt with a
universal language for content rights and licensing terms, offering a
scalable economic foundation for the AI-first Internet. Today’s release
includes additional capabilities for publishers, including giving search
engines permission to include content in search results while opting out of
AI search applications, as well as being able to mandate monetary or
in-kind contributions from AI systems that benefit from noncommercial
content or data.


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