The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
The mission is to keep the web sustainable.
The mission is to keep the web sustainable.
RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web.
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]