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Policy Examples

Seven copy-paste-ready machine-readable policy examples — from a minimal AICR declaration to a pay-per-crawl style HTTP 402 response. Use the playground to generate your own.

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01 · AICR

Basic AICR policy

A minimal rights declaration: open for reading and summarization with attribution, everything deeper reserved.

/.well-known/aicr.json

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "protocol": "AICR",
  "publisher": "example.org",
  "default_policy": {
    "read_access": { "allowed": true },
    "summarization": {
      "allowed": true,
      "attribution_required": true
    },
    "training": { "allowed": false },
    "commercial_use": { "allowed": false },
    "redistribution": { "allowed": false }
  }
}

02 · AICL

Basic AICL catalog

Two license tiers: a free public tier and a contact-based commercial tier.

/.well-known/aicl.json

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "protocol": "AICL",
  "publisher": "example.org",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "id": "public_read",
      "rights": ["read", "summarize"],
      "price": { "amount": "0", "currency": "USD" },
      "conditions": ["attribution_required"]
    },
    {
      "id": "commercial",
      "rights": ["training", "commercial_use"],
      "requires_contact": true,
      "contact": "licensing@example.org"
    }
  ]
}

03 · AICL

Pay-per-crawl style HTTP 402 response

What a server can return when an AI crawler requests licensed content without a license token — a machine-actionable quote instead of a dead end.

HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required

{
  "error": "license_required",
  "message": "This resource requires a license for AI use.",
  "aicl": "https://example.org/.well-known/aicl.json",
  "applicable_licenses": [
    {
      "id": "metered_rag",
      "rights": ["rag"],
      "price": {
        "amount": "0.002",
        "currency": "USD",
        "unit": "per_request"
      }
    }
  ],
  "quote_endpoint": "https://example.org/api/aicl/quote",
  "contact": "licensing@example.org"
}

04 · AICL

Research-only license

Free for research use with retention limits; any commercial use requires contact. Useful for academic sites and datasets.

/.well-known/aicl.json

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "protocol": "AICL",
  "publisher": "research-lab.example",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "id": "academic_research",
      "rights": ["read", "summarize", "rag", "transform"],
      "price": { "amount": "0", "currency": "USD" },
      "conditions": [
        "attribution_required",
        "research_use_only",
        "retention_days_90",
        "no_commercial_use"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "commercial",
      "rights": ["training", "commercial_use"],
      "requires_contact": true,
      "contact": "data-office@research-lab.example"
    }
  ]
}

05 · AICR

No-training content policy

Maximally open at shallow levels — read, summarize, quote, RAG — while categorically reserving model training and fine-tuning.

/.well-known/aicr.json

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "protocol": "AICR",
  "publisher": "creator.example",
  "default_policy": {
    "read_access": { "allowed": true },
    "summarization": {
      "allowed": true,
      "attribution_required": true
    },
    "quotation": {
      "allowed": true,
      "max_excerpt_words": 150,
      "attribution_required": true
    },
    "rag_use": {
      "allowed": true,
      "attribution_required": true
    },
    "training": { "allowed": false },
    "commercial_use": {
      "allowed": false,
      "license_required": true,
      "permission_contact": "hello@creator.example"
    }
  }
}

06 · AILP

RAG allowed with attribution (AILP profile)

A learning-permission profile that welcomes retrieval and embedding but requires attribution and denies verbatim memorization.

/ai/rights-spectrum.json

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "protocol": "AILP",
  "publisher": "blog.example",
  "default": {
    "access": "allowed",
    "indexing": "allowed",
    "inference_input": "allowed",
    "embedding": "allowed",
    "training": "license_required",
    "fine_tuning": "license_required",
    "distillation": "denied",
    "verbatim_memory": "denied",
    "attribution": "required",
    "compensation": "contact"
  },
  "contact": "author@blog.example"
}

07 · AICR

Commercial use requires contact

Path-specific overrides: the blog is open, the premium research section requires a license for anything beyond reading.

/.well-known/aicr.json

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "protocol": "AICR",
  "publisher": "publisher.example",
  "default_policy": {
    "read_access": { "allowed": true },
    "summarization": {
      "allowed": true,
      "attribution_required": true
    },
    "training": {
      "allowed": false,
      "license_required": true,
      "permission_contact": "sales@publisher.example"
    }
  },
  "resource_overrides": [
    {
      "path": "/premium/*",
      "policy": {
        "summarization": { "allowed": false },
        "rag_use": {
          "allowed": false,
          "license_required": true
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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