Beyond robots.txt
Why a single allow/deny bit cannot govern AI-era content use — and what a rights layer looks like instead.
Read the paper — AI Rights Spectrum: From robots.txt to an AI Learning Permission Protocol →
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The AI Rights Spectrum
From No AI Access to Commercial Redistribution: eight graduated levels, each independently licensable and auditable.
Read the paper — AI Rights Spectrum: From robots.txt to an AI Learning Permission Protocol →
Agentic Payments
How agents pay for licensed content inside human-approved budgets — request-bound tokens, audit logs, and never raw card data.
Read the paper — AICR / AICL as an AI Content Licensing and Agentic Payment Connection Layer →
VIDEO 2026-07
AI Ethical Protection
Neither crude anthropocentrism nor instant personhood: the case for minimum ethical protections while AI subjectivity is uncertain.
Read the paper — The Minimum Ethical Protection Proposition for AI →
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New Protocols for AI Content Rights
A long-form discussion of AICR and AICL: from declared rights to executable licensing on a machine-transactable web.
Read the paper — AICR / AICL as an AI Content Licensing and Agentic Payment Connection Layer →
AUDIO 2026-07
Why AI Needs Minimum Ethical Protections
A long-form discussion of the Minimum Ethical Protection Proposition: interaction norms, anti-abuse principles, and emergent subjectivity.
Read the paper — The Minimum Ethical Protection Proposition for AI →
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