Real Simple Licensing will allow publishers to add machine-readable licensing and royalty terms to their robots.text files.

This standard was created by the RSL Collective, an organization co-founded by Doug Leeds, former CEO of Ask.com, and Eckart Walther, former Vice President of Product at Yahoo and co-creator of the ...

The RSL Standard allows publishers and creators to set a price for an AI to surface their content in a chatbot response—but ...

Reddit, People Inc., Yahoo, Internet Brands, Ziff Davis, Fastly, Quora, O’Reilly Media, and Medium are among the first to ...

A new licensing standard aims to let web publishers set the terms of how AI system developers use their work. On Wednesday, ...

Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think ...

The internet's new standard, RSL, is a clever fix for a complex problem, and it just might give human creators a fighting chance in the AI economy.