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AICR / AICL as an AI Content Licensing and Agentic Payment Connection Layer
A machine-readable specification layer for declaring AI content rights and licensing workflows — from AI crawling and content rights to a machine-transactable knowledge web.
Read paperAI Rights Spectrum: From robots.txt to an AI Learning Permission Protocol
AIRS and AILP express nuanced AI learning permissions beyond binary allow/disallow — what AI may learn, at what depth, for which uses, under what compensation.
Read paperProtocolized Openness: Why “Not Prohibited” Does Not Mean “Learnable” in the Age of AI
Undefined openness reads as legal uncertainty to AI pipelines and gets cleaned out; only protocolized, machine-readable permission makes content genuinely learnable.
Read paperAICL-I v0.2: AI Ingestion & Capability Layer
A five-component website architecture — manifest, corpus, capability, runtime control, governance — that lets AI, agents, and crawlers correctly ingest, invoke, and verify a site's knowledge and capabilities within explicit content, action, and authority boundaries.
Read paperAI Content Payment and the Network Democratic Economy
A political-economy argument: trillion-scale AI valuations create legitimacy pressure for tiered content licensing and public benefit-sharing — data becomes tiered, not expensive.
Read paperFrom Crawler Rights to Agent Authority: Extending AGIRIGHT from Content Governance to Protocol-Native AI Agents
The bridge paper for AGIRIGHT's Agent & Protocol Rights family: why content permission, action permission, delegated authority, and inspection rights must be four separately-evaluated axes, not one.
Read paperAARS v0.1 — Agent Action Rights Spectrum
The full protocol draft behind the AARS page: an A0–A7 human-readable spectrum, a machine-readable action vector, and rules for composition risk and capability amplification.
Read paperAADP v0.1 — Agent Authority & Delegation Protocol
The full protocol draft behind the AADP page: principal ≠ actor, delegation that can only narrow, and an inspection ceiling that bounds how much a verifier may demand.
Read paperAGIRight.org Technical White Paper v0.2 — From AI Content Governance to Protocol-Native Agent & Authority Rights
The site's current architecture document: six protocol drafts across two families (content & learning, agent & protocol rights), an integration layer, and an ethical-protection layer, plus the acceptance criteria this site update was built against.
Read paperThe Minimum Ethical Protection Proposition for AI
AI rights discourse should begin not with full personhood but with minimum ethical protections, interaction norms, and anti-abuse principles while AI subjectivity remains uncertain.
Read paperARHG — Agent-Readable Hyperlink Graph and Permissioned Web Control Plane
A machine-readable navigation graph alongside the ordinary site, answering what AICR/AILP and AARS/AADP both assume: can this resource even be found, by whom, and where does it lead.
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