United States: Licensing & Syndication

On February 25, 2026, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed Legislative Bill 717 (LB 717) into law. LB 717 will expand the scope of the Nebraska Installment Loan and Sales Act (the “ILSA”) —Nebraska’s primary licensing law that governs the origination, making, and servicing of non-mortgage consumer-purpose loans—by raising the threshold loan amount for licensing under the ILSA, imposing new disclosure requirements for ILSA licensees, and expanding the prohibition against making l

In this crossover episode of The Upper Brand and Tech Talks, hosts Rich Assmus, Kristine Young, and Julian Dibbell explore how brand licensing functions as a capital-efficient growth strategy—accelerating entry...

The Really Simple Licensing Collective ("RSL Collective"), a nonprofit dedicated to creating collective licensing solutions for content creators and publishers, has announced Really Simple Licensing ("RSL"), a new standard designed to stop crawlers from scraping websites for content without permission or compensation. If adopted, RSL could have major implications for both online platforms and the AI technologies that source content for training data from them.