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  • Creative Commons Weighs 'Pay-to-Crawl' for AI Training
    December 16, 2025
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    Creative Commons Weighs 'Pay-to-Crawl' for AI Training

    Creative Commons is exploring a "pay-to-crawl" model to automate payments to websites when AI bots scrape their content, aiming to provide publishers a revenue stream and balance creator needs with AI industry demands. This proposed system could help offset publishers' lost web traffic from AI ch...

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  • Official AI Licensing Standard Now Requires Payment for Scraping
    December 10, 2025
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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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