AI

Really Simple Licensing (RSL)

An XML idea for declaring AI licensing terms to crawlers. Early. Watch it; don’t bet the year on it.

Legal teams may want a file. GEO teams still need robots.txt reality.

Adoption will be messy, like every new robots cousin.

Examples

  • A publisher adds RSL. One bot understands. Four ignore it. Logs tell the truth.

Related terms

Content Signals (robots)

Proposed robots.txt-style directives for how crawled content may be used: search vs AI input vs training.
Publisher licensing

Deals where labs pay (or get blocked) for using professional content. Changes which domains appear in answers.
TDM rights reservation

Legal/technical flags that reserve text-and-data-mining rights. EU-flavored. Partial crawler support.

FAQ

Ship RSL? +

If counsel asks. Then verify who actually reads it.

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