Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping
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Discussion
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@marie_haynes
Marie Haynes
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New: Really Simple Licensing (RSL) - a protocol to provide fair, standardized compensation for publishers and creators and simple, automated licensing for AI and technology companies. It's being adopted by Reddit, People Inc. Yahoo, Quora and a bunch of other sites. It goes
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@glenngabe
Glenn Gabe
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Element: <payment> -> Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping “The RSL Standard builds upon the robots.txt protocol, which has long allowed publishers to [imag…
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@isamlambert
Sam Lambert
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People need to stop fucking with open source licenses https://news.ycombinator.com/ ... There are very few true open source licenses. https://choosealicense.com/ was created for a reason to help people understand this.
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@youngbloodjoe
Joe Youngblood
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Tech companies and publishers are adopting a licensing system created by a co-founder of RSS. However, no AI systems yet endorse this. It is also extremely similar to my proposal from a few months ago, except it appears to add quite a bit of extra HTML code to a page instead of…
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r/artificial
r
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The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up | Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are just some of the major brands on board with the RSL Standard.
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The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up