Topic: content compensation
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Official AI Licensing Standard Now Requires Payment for Scraping
The Really Simple Licensing 1.0 (RSL) standard allows publishers to set rules and require payment from AI companies that scrape their web content, evolving beyond the basic access controls of robots.txt files. Supported by major infrastructure firms like Cloudflare, RSL enables publishers to sele...
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Ex-Xbox VP: Game Pass Popularity Hurts Game Sales
Subscription gaming services like Game Pass may undermine game sales and developer sustainability by not adequately compensating creators for their content. Even successful games on these platforms can see reduced direct revenue, making studios vulnerable despite high player engagement. The model...
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EU Launches Probe Into Google's Unfair Content Use
The EU is investigating whether Google abuses its search dominance to pressure publishers into allowing free use of their content for AI features, risking their visibility if they refuse. A key focus is whether Google unfairly uses YouTube creator content to train its own AI models without paymen...
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Web Developers Revolt Against Google's AI Overviews
Web developers and publishers are challenging Google's AI Overviews, which they argue reduce traffic and revenue by providing direct answers in search results, prompting infrastructure provider Cloudflare to update robots.txt files to pressure Google into changing its content crawling practices. ...
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Google AI Mode to Feature More Source Links
Google is enhancing its AI Mode to show more source links within AI-generated responses, aiming to increase transparency about information origins. The update coincides with a European Commission probe into Google's use of publisher content in AI features and includes a pilot program with major p...
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