Licensing & Access Economics

terms, compensation and gating

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• RSL Machine-readable content-licensing terms, referenced from robots.txt — say which AI uses are free and which require a license or royalty.
• Pay Per Crawl Cloudflare's HTTP 402-based mechanism that lets publishers charge AI crawlers per request — allow free, set a price, or block — with Cloudflare as merchant of record.
• Content Signals A robots.txt extension that lets a site declare how its content may be used after access — search, ai-input, and ai-train — as machine-readable preferences.

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