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. -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -