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The RSL Collective is a nonprofit rights organization that brings together publishers, creators and AI companies through the RSL standard to provide fair, standardized royalties for content owners and simple, automated licensing for AI companies.

Coverage & News

• Sep 14, 2025 — New York Magazine
  The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

• Sep 11, 2025 — Digit
  Reddit to Yahoo: Why RSL AI license is getting traction with online publishers

• Sep 11, 2025 — EMARKETER
  Reddit, Yahoo, and others unite to demand AI pay for scraped content

• Sep 11, 2025 — CNET
  Online Media Brands Hope a New Protocol Will Stop Unwanted AI Crawlers

• Sep 11, 2025 — The Register
  New Really Simple Licensing spec wants AI crawlers to show a license - or a credit card

• Sep 10, 2025 — RSL
  RSL Standard and Collective Launch Announcement

• Sep 10, 2025 — Fastly Blog
  Control and Monetize Your Content with the RSL Standard

• Sep 10, 2025 — The Medium Blog (Tony Stubblebine)
  Finally, an internet standard for writers’ rights vs. AI companies

• Sep 10, 2025 — The Verge
  The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up

• Sep 10, 2025 — TechCrunch
  RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

• Sep 10, 2025 — ZDNet
  Publishers are fighting back against AI with a new web protocol - is it too late?

• Sep 10, 2025 — Ars Technica
  Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions.

• Sep 10, 2025 — Engadget
  Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping

• Sep 10, 2025 — PC Mag
  Reddit, Ziff Davis Back New Idea to Stop AI From Ruining the Internet

• Sep 10, 2025 — Search Engine Land
  Brands back new licensing standard to charge AI for training data

• Sep 10, 2025 — Editor & Publisher
  Reddit, Yahoo, Ziff Davis and more announce support for new AI content licensing standard

• Sep 10, 2025 — Tech.co
  New RSL Standard Aims to Stop Unpaid AI Content Scraping

• Sep 10, 2025 — Tech EDT
  New web licensing standard seeks to make AI companies pay for content use

• Sep 10, 2025 — Technology for You
  AI’s free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol

• Sep 10, 2025 — The Information
  Reddit, People Inc. Back New Content Licensing Model for AI

• Sep 10, 2025 — The Media Copilot (Substack)
  Web publishers unite behind RSL protocol to unlock AI training revenue

• Sep 10, 2025 — Web Pro News
  Publishers Launch RSL: Music-Inspired Licensing for AI Data Compensation

• Sep 10, 2025 — MediaPost
  Real Simple Justice: New Standard Seeks Payment For AI Content Scraping, Usage

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Fast Facts

• Name: RSL Collective
• Business: Nonprofit Collective Rights Organization for the Internet
• Founded: 2025
• Mission: Protect the value of human creativity online by leveraging the RSL Standard to ensure that the millions of online creators and publishers are fairly compensated when AI and other technology companies use their work.

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