AICR — AI Content Rights

AI Content Rights / AI Content Rules

A machine-readable declaration of what AI systems may do with your content.

01 · Definition

AICR is a machine-readable rights declaration layer. It lets a publisher state — per site, per path, or per resource — whether AI systems may read, summarize, quote, retrieve (RAG), transform, train on, commercially use, or redistribute content, and under which conditions such as attribution, retention limits, or contact-based licensing. Where robots.txt only says "crawl or don't", AICR carries the semantics of rights.

02 · Purpose

Replace the binary allow/deny of robots.txt with graduated, use-specific permissions.
Give creators and publishers a standard way to reserve training and commercial rights while staying open to reading and citation.
Give AI systems a discoverable, auditable basis for compliant content use.
Serve as the rights foundation that AICL licensing flows execute against.

03 · Scope

read_access — whether AI may fetch and read the content

summarization — summaries, with or without attribution

quotation — excerpt limits and attribution rules

rag_use — retrieval-augmented generation, retention windows

transformation — structured extraction and derivative works

training — model training and fine-tuning permission

commercial_use — commercial exploitation of the content

redistribution — republishing or redistributing content or derivatives

04 · Machine-readable example

This site's own policy — /.well-known/aicr.json

/.well-known/aicr.json

{
  "version": "0.1",
  "publisher": "AGIRight.org",
  "default_policy": {
    "read_access": { "allowed": true },
    "summarization": {
      "allowed": true,
      "attribution_required": true
    },
    "quotation": {
      "allowed": true,
      "max_excerpt_words": 200,
      "attribution_required": true
    },
    "rag_use": {
      "allowed": true,
      "attribution_required": true,
      "retention_days": 30
    },
    "training": {
      "allowed": false,
      "permission_contact": "contact@agiright.org"
    },
    "commercial_use": {
      "allowed": false,
      "permission_contact": "contact@agiright.org"
    },
    "redistribution": { "allowed": false }
  }
}

05 · Limitations

AICR is a declaration, not an enforcement mechanism — compliance depends on AI systems choosing (or being required) to honor it.
It is an open research draft, not an adopted industry or legal standard.
It does not by itself resolve copyright disputes or define the legal weight of a declaration.
Field names and semantics may change between draft versions.