Expert insights on AI traffic, content monetization, and GDPR compliance for publishers.
A new robots.txt directive lets a site point crawlers at a licensing document instead of just an allow/deny rule. Here's what it actually does, how it differs from a rights declaration, and — honestly — whether any AI crawler reads it yet.
robots.txt only ever controlled whether a crawler visits. A newer, separate declaration answers a different question: what may it do with what it reads? Here's the EU copyright mechanism behind it — and why 'declare' is the accurate word, not 'block'.
Major publishers are signing multi-million dollar licensing deals with AI companies. Here's how the content licensing landscape is evolving and what it means for website owners of all sizes.