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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.

Technical Steering Committee

Eckart Walther

Eckart Walther

Chair, co-creator RSS, RSL Collective

R.V. Guha

R.V. Guha

Co-creator RSS, Schema.org

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

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

Conde Nast

Reuben Smith

Reuben Smith

wikiHow

Publisher Advisory Council

Doug Leeds

Doug Leeds

RSL Collective

Elizabeth Douglas

Elizabeth Douglas

wikiHow

Supporters

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