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Terms.Law: AI training data licensing

10 records were read from this source, dated 30 Sep 2026 to 11 Oct 2026.

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Last checked 11 Oct 2026

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Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
Price the term and the life of the trained model separately	Negotiation lever	Disclosed AI licences run two to three years (Reddit), at least three years (News Corp…	11 Oct 2026
Does the company selling the data own it, and has someone with authority approved the sale?	Rights question	The legal entity that collected the data is the licensor; the board has approved the…	11 Oct 2026
Is any of it data or content you licensed from someone else, such as purchased contact lists, research reports, stock media, fonts or design kits?	Rights question	Bought and licensed material is identified and removed before packaging, and the…	11 Oct 2026
Does the data include text, images, video or files created by others that you do not own (articles, reports, books, customer uploads, screenshots of other products)?	Rights question	Third-party content is identified and removed or licensed; what remains is the company's…	30 Sep 2026
Did every employee and contractor who created the code, documents or recordings sign an agreement assigning their work to the company?	Rights question	Signed invention and IP assignment agreements for all contributors, including…	11 Oct 2026
Licensed purpose and field of use	Licence term	Name the permitted uses (pretraining, fine-tuning, evaluation, retrieval) and exclude…	11 Oct 2026
Survival of trained models after the licence ends (perpetual model rights)	Licence term	Price it: perpetual model rights are the default ask and should cost more than a term…
Holder warranties: title, lawful collection, non-infringement, privacy	Licence term	Holders commonly give title and authority without qualification and qualify the rest by…
Representations on consent and opt-outs	Licence term	Warrant to knowledge, keep a consent ledger per person or per work, and agree a process…
Indemnities and liability caps	Licence term	Limit indemnity to precisely defined claim types, cap it (a multiple of fees), and carve…

Price the term and the life of the trained model separately
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
Disclosed AI licences run two to three years (Reddit), at least three years (News Corp…
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Does the company selling the data own it, and has someone with authority approved the sale?
Kind
Rights question
As stated
The legal entity that collected the data is the licensor; the board has approved the…
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Is any of it data or content you licensed from someone else, such as purchased contact lists, research reports, stock media, fonts or design kits?
Kind
Rights question
As stated
Bought and licensed material is identified and removed before packaging, and the…
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Does the data include text, images, video or files created by others that you do not own (articles, reports, books, customer uploads, screenshots of other products)?
Kind
Rights question
As stated
Third-party content is identified and removed or licensed; what remains is the company's…
Dated
30 Sep 2026
Did every employee and contractor who created the code, documents or recordings sign an agreement assigning their work to the company?
Kind
Rights question
As stated
Signed invention and IP assignment agreements for all contributors, including…
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Licensed purpose and field of use
Kind
Licence term
As stated
Name the permitted uses (pretraining, fine-tuning, evaluation, retrieval) and exclude…
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Survival of trained models after the licence ends (perpetual model rights)
Kind
Licence term
As stated
Price it: perpetual model rights are the default ask and should cost more than a term…
Holder warranties: title, lawful collection, non-infringement, privacy
Kind
Licence term
As stated
Holders commonly give title and authority without qualification and qualify the rest by…
Representations on consent and opt-outs
Kind
Licence term
As stated
Warrant to knowledge, keep a consent ledger per person or per work, and agree a process…
Indemnities and liability caps
Kind
Licence term
As stated
Limit indemnity to precisely defined claim types, cap it (a multiple of fees), and carve…