US EditionRsl 1.0 Instead of robots.txt: New Standard for Internet Content
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A new standard to protect content on the Internet. RSL is supported by actors such as publishers and the advertising industry.
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0, which has been attracting attention as a mechanism that allows publishers to clearly state the terms of use for each use of web content by AI companies, has been released as an official standard specification. Internet infrastructure companies such as Cloudflare and Akamai, as well as many media companies, have already expressed their support for the implementation of RSL.
Yahoo and other companies jointly formed the RSL Consortium and launched the RSL 1.0 standard, requiring AI companies to pay for content they scrape from the web and expanding the robots.txt file to declare licensing rules. Cloudflare, Fastly, and Akamai already support the standard, which can block unpaid or unauthorized crawlers. Currently, more than 1,500 media organizations and brands support the standard.
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