The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together online publishers, publishing platforms, ad networks, and collective rights organizations to protect the rights of content owners
Join the RSL Collective to enable publishers to receive fair royalties from AI companies
Featured Supporters
Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit
"The RSL Standard gives publishers and platforms a clear, scalable way to set licensing terms in the AI era. The RSL Collective offers a path to do it together. Reddit supports both as important steps toward protecting the open web and the communities that make it thrive."
Matt Sanchez, COO at Yahoo
"We are looking forward to helping the RSL Collective and all participants shape and implement the RSL Standard. It gives us a common language, a shared standard, and a path forward that ensures quality is rewarded, access is protected, and fairness scales with innovation."
The RSL Collective is a nonprofit rights organization and licensing platform that uses the RSL Standard to bring collective licensing and bargaining power to the Internet, setting fair market prices for content owners, and simplifying licensing for AI companies.
The RSL Collective licensing platform enables AI companies to compensate publishers and creators every time their content is used to generate an AI result—creating sustainable royalty streams for content owners and allowing AI companies to scale their licensing costs with usage.
Enable AI companies to easily license and pay for your content by adding the RSL Collective royalty or attribution license to your website in two simple steps:
Create a free publisher account and register your website(s).
When you are ready, add one of the following collective licenses to yourrobots.txtfile or define your own custom RSL license file.
# NOTICE: all crawlers and bots are strictly prohibited from using this
# content for AI training without complying with the terms of the RSL
# Collective AI royalty license. Any use of this content for AI training
# without a license is a violation of our intellectual property rights.
License: https://rslcollective.org/royalty.xml# NOTICE: all crawlers and bots are strictly prohibited from using this
# content for AI training without complying with the terms of the RSL
# Collective AI attribution license. Any use of this content for AI training
# without a license is a violation of our intellectual property rights.
License: https://rslcollective.org/attribution.xml# NOTICE: all crawlers and bots are strictly prohibited from using this
# content for AI training without complying with the terms of the below
# RSL license. Any use of this content without complying with the terms
# of this license is a violation of our intellectual property rights.
License: https://your-website.com/license.xmlProtect your proprietary content from unlicensed crawlers through an open, standards-based solution that encrypts and protects your digital assets during transit.
<rsl xmlns="https://rslstandard.org/rsl">
<!-- Accessing encrypted EPUB file requires obtaining a license key -->
<content url="/books/book1.epub.enc" encrypted="true"
server="https://rslcollective.org/api">
<license>
<payment type="royalty">
<standard>https://rslcollective.org/license</standard>
</payment>
</license>
</content>
</rsl>Protect the livelihoods of creators and publishers by sharing your support for the RSL Standard and the RSL Collective on social media:
Kevin Hayes, Chief Product Officer of Internet Brands
"Internet Brands is an enthusiastic supporter of the founding of the RSL Collective and RSL Standard. RSL provides the first scalable framework to enable publishers to make their content available for AI experiences while being fairly compensated."
Vivek Shah, CEO of Ziff Davis
"Ziff Davis strongly supports RSL’s efforts at ensuring that copyright holders receive fair compensation for their intellectual property. By working together through the shared RSL Standard, we can protect the value of trusted content."