A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official

An unfastened licensing modular that aims to marque AI companies wage for the contented they vacuum up crossed the web is now an authoritative specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 - oregon RSL for abbreviated - gives publishers the quality to dictate licensing and compensation rules to the web crawlers that sojourn their sites.

The RSL Collective announced the modular in September with backing from Yahoo, Ziff Davis, and O'Reilly Media. It's an enlargement of the robots.txt file, which outlines the parts of a website a web crawler tin access. Though RSL unsocial can't artifact AI scrapers that don't wage for a license, the web infrastructure providers that enactment the s …

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