{"summary":"PCM standardizes AI content licensing with usage tracking and per-use payment models. Publishers are pushing to establish licensing standards before AI companies set the terms themselves. RSL officially reached version 1.0 with backing from major internet infrastructure companies and more than 1,500 media organizations.","results":[{"subject":"PCM","kind":"standard","fact":"PCM standardizes AI content licensing with usage tracking and per-use payment models.","quote":"PCM standardizes the process with usage tracking and per-use payment models.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/microsoft-publisher-content-marketplace-ai-licensing/","reported":"2026-02-10"},{"subject":"publishers","kind":"standard","fact":"Publishers are pushing to establish licensing standards before AI companies set the terms themselves.","quote":"It’s part of a broader push by publishers to establish licensing standards before AI companies set the terms themselves.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/meta-news-corp-ai-content-licensing-deal/","reported":"2026-03-04"},{"subject":"Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0","kind":"standard","fact":"RSL officially reached version 1.0 with backing from major internet infrastructure companies and more than 1,500 media organizations.","quote":"Really Simple Licensing, the open standard that lets publishers define how AI systems can use their content, officially reached version 1.0 on Tuesday with backing from major internet infrastructure companies and more than 1,500 media organizations.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/rsl-licensing-standard-hits-1-0-gains-support-from-1500-publishers/","reported":"2025-12-10"},{"subject":"RSL 1.0","kind":"standard","fact":"The standard creates machine-readable licensing terms for AI training.","quote":"The standard creates machine-readable licensing terms for AI training.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/rsl-licensing-standard-hits-1-0-gains-support-from-1500-publishers/","reported":"2025-12-10"},{"subject":"RSL 1.0 supporters","kind":"standard","fact":"Cloudflare, Akamai, Creative Commons, and the IAB Tech Lab all announced support for RSL 1.0.","quote":"Cloudflare, Akamai, Creative Commons, and the 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responses.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/rsl-licensing-standard-hits-1-0-gains-support-from-1500-publishers/","reported":"2025-12-10"},{"subject":"Akamai and RSL","kind":"standard","fact":"Akamai committed to helping publishers enforce their RSL controls.","quote":"Akamai committed to helping publishers enforce their RSL controls.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/rsl-licensing-standard-hits-1-0-gains-support-from-1500-publishers/","reported":"2025-12-10"},{"subject":"SPUR coalition","kind":"standard","fact":"SPUR launched in February to develop common standards for how AI companies use publisher content.","quote":"The Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition, or SPUR, launched in February to develop common standards for how AI companies use publisher content.","source":"https://mediacopilot.ai/spur-coalition-publishers-ai-content/","reported":"2026-10-13"},{"subject":"SPUR coalition","kind":"standard","fact":"SPUR recently introduced a Content Telemetry Standard for 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Facts come from The Media Copilot's reporting; each one links its article and quotes it.","docs":"https://www.oasy.ai/api/licenseledger/quftzf74"}