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Yahoo is the first to sign up for new pay-to-scrape collective AI licensing.

The Verge •
November 12, 2026 • 04:36 PM
• By Terrence O'Brien
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Last year, several companies backed RSL, a new licensing standard that would require AI companies to pay for scraping content through a collective license rather than one-off deals with specific outlets. Now Yahoo, one of the backers of what is now called the Internet Licensing Collective (ILC), is its first official licensee. [Link: Yahoo becomes first licensee of ‘Spotify-like’ collective AI content licensing model | https://digiday.com/media/yahoo-becomes-first-licensee-of-spotify-like-collective-ai-content-licensing-model/ | Digiday]

Yahoo is the first to sign up for new pay-to-scrape collective AI licensing.

Last year, several companies backed RSL , a new licensing standard that would require AI companies to pay for scraping content through a collective license rather than one-off deals with specific outlets. Now Yahoo, one of the backers of what is now called the Internet Licensing Collective (ILC), is its first official licensee .

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