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NewsCloseNewsPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All NewsAICloseAIPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All AITechCloseTechPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All TechA pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now officialRSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web.RSL 1.0 helps publishers outline how AI companies should pay for the content they scrape across the web.by Emma RothCloseEmma RothNews WriterPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Emma RothDec 10, 2025, 2:00 PM UTCLinkShareImage: Cath Virginia / The VergeEmma RothCloseEmma RothPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 — or RSL for short — gives publishers the ability to dictate licensing and compensation rules to the web crawlers that visit their sites.The RSL Collective announced the standard in September with backing from Yahoo, Ziff Davis, and O’Reilly Media. It’s an expansion of the robots.txt file, which outlines the parts of a website a web crawler can access. Though RSL alone can’t block AI scrapers that don’t pay for a license, the web infrastructure providers that support the standard can — a list that now includes Cloudflare and Akamai, in addition to Fastly.RSL’s 1.0 release lets publishers block their content from AI-powered search features, like Google’s AI Mode, while maintaining a presence in traditional search results. Currently, Google doesn’t give websites an individual option to opt out of AI-powered features without booting them out of traditional search, too.“RSL provides exactly that missing layer,” RSL Collective cofounders Doug Leeds and Eckart Walther say in an emailed statement to The Verge. “Using RSL, Google can respect a publisher’s preferences at the use case level, which means a publisher can stay fully available in traditional search, while opting out of AI training, grounding, or generative answers.”RelatedThe web has a new system for making AI companies pay upCloudflare will now block AI crawlers by defaultGoogle is currently facing an investigation from the European Commission, which is looking into whether the company has violated antitrust policies by using web publishers’ content in AI search features “without offering them the possibility to refuse such use of their content.”The RSL Collective says more than 1,500 media organizations and brands now support RSL. In addition to Reddit, Quora, WikiHow, Stack Overflow, and Medium, publishers like The Associated Press, Vox Media (The Verge’s parent company), The Guardian, Slate, BuzzFeed, and Men’s Journal publisher Arena Group have also endorsed the standard.“With this release, and the support for it across the internet ecosystem, RSL 1.0 becomes the expected and trusted way to communicate how content may be used in AI systems, giving those signals real weight in both practice and legal interpretation,” Leeds says.The RSL Collective also worked with the Creative Commons to add a new “contribution” payment option for nonprofit organizations and individuals behind the webpages, code repositories, and datasets that make up “the shared pool of freely available knowledge and creative work on the internet.”Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Emma RothCloseEmma RothNews WriterPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Emma RothAICloseAIPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All AINewsCloseNewsPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All NewsTechCloseTechPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All TechWebCloseWebPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All WebMost PopularMost PopularRAM is ruining everythingI’m obsessed with Redfin’s AI searchA first look at Google’s Project Aura glasses built with XrealSome of Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart devices are now available in the USThe next Pebble gadget is the Index 01, a ring with a microphoneThe Verge DailyA free daily digest of the news that matters most.Email (required)Sign UpBy submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice. 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