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Automate licensing
Automate large-scale web content licensing and eliminate manual integrations with publishers through the RSL content licensing standard and licensing APIs.
For AI companies
Automate content licensing at scale.
Request and manage licenses from millions of RSL Collective members through standardized terms and simple licensing APIs — no one-off negotiations, no manual integrations. Join for free to request access to the RSL Collective licensing APIs and tools.
Built onThe RSL standardStandardized termsLicensing APIs
Why it matters
“RSL provides the first scalable framework to enable publishers to make their content available for AI experiences while being fairly compensated.”
KH
Kevin Hayes
Chief Product Officer, Internet Brands
Services for AI companies
One integration. The whole collective.
Everything you need to license, pay for, and prove your right to use content from RSL Collective members — through a single standard.
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Standardized licenses
Eliminate one-off, manual negotiations through standardized content licensing terms that unlock access to content from RSL Collective members.
03
Proprietary content
Easily license encrypted, nonpublic content not accessible through public crawling — including paywalled articles, books, videos, and datasets.
04
Royalty & reporting tools
Standardized tools and APIs to pay licensing royalties and deliver usage reports to content owners.
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Proof of licensing
Create a verifiable record of which content was licensed, and under what terms.
Content you can license
Paywalled articlesBooksVideosDatasetsPublic web
How licensing works
Request once. Reach millions of members.
Your systems call the RSL licensing API. The collective license grants standardized terms across every enrolled member — and royalties and usage reports flow back automatically.
AI developer
apps & models
→
Licensing API
request · access · prove
→
Collective license
standardized terms
→
Publisher members
millions of sites
← royalties & usage reports
Payments and standardized usage reports are delivered back to content owners for every licensed use.
Get API access
Standardized terms, one licensing API.
The RSL Collective licensing APIs let you request licenses, retrieve standardized terms, pay royalties, and generate verifiable proof of licensing — across every member, through a single integration.
Join for free to request access to the licensing APIs and tools.
POST /v1/licenses
Authorization: Bearer <api_key>
{
"content_url": "https://example.com/article",
"usage": "train"
}
← 200 OK
{
"license_id": "lic_7b3d…",
"terms": "standard-v1",
"royalty": "metered",
"proof": "https://proof.rslcollective.org/…"
}figure to confirm
Members represented
figure to confirm
Licensable pages
figure to confirm
Content types
figure to confirm
Standardized terms
License the open web
Start licensing content at scale — fairly, and with proof.
Join for free to request access to the RSL Collective licensing APIs and tools.