RSL Collective
Nonprofit that publishes the RSL licensing standard and acts as a collective rights organization for web publishers dealing with AI companies — the music-publishing model applied to web content. Discovered while ingesting rsl-standard.
Co-founded by Eckart Walther, a co-creator of RSS, and Doug Leeds, former CEO of Ask.com. The founders' lineage is the tell: RSS was the last successful attempt to standardise how machines consume a site's content, and RSL reuses its distribution habit — terms declared in files crawlers already fetch.
It reports 50+ partners and roughly 1,500 endorsing media organisations. No royalty figures have been published, so the collective's bargaining record is still unmeasured.
Connections
- publisher of rsl-standard
- the collective-bargaining answer to the leverage problem in ai-content-monetization