RSL standard / RSL Collective
machine-readable AI licensing terms in robots.txt and RSS
RSL standard / RSL Collective official (standard) + secondary (fee model) standard live; Collective pre-revenue
20 AI data/licensing · Web licensing · standard
Sells or earns: machine-readable AI licensing terms in robots.txt and RSS
licence models free, attribution, subscription, pay per crawl, pay per inference; Collective is ASCAP-style nonprofit that will take a percentage of royalties once deals close; no membership dues at present
Payout: per collective · Eligibility: publisher adopts RSL; Collective membership free now · Notes: backers include Reddit, Yahoo, Vox Media, Stack Overflow, Medium, BuzzFeed, MIT Press
Fields
- category
- 20 AI data/licensing
- subcategory
- Web licensing
- name
- RSL standard / RSL Collective
- url
- https://rslstandard.org/
- type
- standard
- what_you_sell_or_earn
- machine-readable AI licensing terms in robots.txt and RSS
- economics
- licence models free, attribution, subscription, pay per crawl, pay per inference; Collective is ASCAP-style nonprofit that will take a percentage of royalties once deals close; no membership dues at present
- payout_threshold
- per collective
- eligibility
- publisher adopts RSL; Collective membership free now
- status
- standard live; Collective pre-revenue
- verified_date
- 2026-09-05
- verification
- official (standard) + secondary (fee model)
- source_url
- https://rslcollective.org/
- notes
- backers include Reddit, Yahoo, Vox Media, Stack Overflow, Medium, BuzzFeed, MIT Press
Machine-readable: category JSON · record id 20-rsl-standard-rsl-collective