Real Simple Licensing Launches Collective for AI Training Royalties via robots.txt
Real Simple Licensing (RSL), launched by RSS co‑creator Eckart Walther and backed by publishers like Reddit, Quora and Yahoo, creates machine‑readable licenses in robots.txt plus a collective to negotiate and collect royalties for AI training data. It aims to stave off copyright lawsuits after Anthropic, but must persuade AI labs to pay and solve hard tracking/reporting issues.
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