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About RSL

The Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard is an open, collaborative initiative dedicated to defining standardized, machine-readable building blocks for expressing content licensing and compensation rules for how content is accessed and processed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) model development, deployment, and use. The direction and evolution of the RSL Standard is guided by the RSL Technical Steering Committee, with input from a broad community of publishers, platforms, and open standards organizations.

Technical Steering Committee

Eckart Walther

Eckart Walther

Chair, co-creator RSS, RSL Collective

R.V. Guha

R.V. Guha

Co-creator RSS, Schema.org

Andrew Odewahn

Andrew Odewahn

O'Reilly Media

Stephane Koenig

Stephane Koenig

Yahoo

James LePage

James LePage

Automattic

Simon Wistow

Simon Wistow

Fastly

Joey Fortuna

Joey Fortuna

Ziff Davis

Chris Chen

Chris Chen

Condé Nast

Publisher Advisory Council

Elizabeth Douglas

Elizabeth Douglas

wikiHow

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media

Doug Leeds

Doug Leeds

RSL Collective

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