Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

As this article notes, Really Simple Licensing (RSL) "builds upon the robots.txt protocol (to) add licensing and royalty terms to their robots.txt file." But publishers are simply inventing rights they do not actually have. As I have commented before, publishers can ask for royalty payments, but if the use of their content is deemed fair use (or fail dealing) companies have no requirement to pay them.

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