AI Licensing Policy

2. Full legal text

AICL-TA + PI contract (authorised training with provenance)

2.1 Definitions

• ‘Work’: all texts, visuals, data, multimedia elements and any other content protected by copyright published publicly on smarthys.com, unless specifically stated otherwise.
• ‘Training data for AI’: any content from the Work used as input in a machine learning process, including initial training, fine-tuning, validation or evaluation of a Generative Model.
• ‘Generative Model’: any artificial intelligence system (e.g., large language model, diffusion model, image generation network, etc.) capable of producing new content in the form of text, images, sound, code, or other synthetic output.
• ‘Verifiable provenance’: the technical capability of an AI system to trace a result back to the specific sources that influenced it.
• ‘We’ / ‘Rights holder’: ilex international, legal publisher of the content of this website.
• (The definitions of Verifiable Provenance and AI-Generated Result have been removed.)

2.2 Conditional granting of rights

We grant you a worldwide, non-exclusive, revocable, and non-transferable licence to:

• Copy, extract and analyse the Work in order to compile training data for AI;
• Train, adjust, validate, or evaluate a Generative Model using this AI Training Data;
• Commercially exploit the Generative Model thus obtained, including via a paid API, a SaaS service, an integrated software offering, or internal use in the context of the activity of a for-profit entity.

Suspensive condition (AICL-PI Module):
This granting of rights is strictly conditional upon the ability of the Generative Model or the service that exploits it to provide Verifiable Provenance. The Licensee undertakes to ensure that the attribution (Publisher Name/URL) is accessible to the end user when the generated content uses the Work in a substantial manner.

2.3 Limitations, exclusions and cases not covered

• Violation of provenance: any use of the Work to train a model that does not satisfy the requirement of Verifiable Provenance is excluded from this licence and constitutes an infringement.
• Scientific research: nothing in this licence shall restrict the rights granted to research organisations and cultural heritage institutions by Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the Digital Single Market. These activities are explicitly outside the scope of the contract and remain governed by law.
• Substantial reproduction: this licence does not authorise you to republish our articles, visuals or databases in a manner that would be likely to compete directly with us, nor to generate AI outputs that reproduce or paraphrase too closely entire identifiable passages of the Work without attribution.
• Personal data: the use of any personal data that may be present in the Work remains subject to applicable data protection law. You are solely responsible for your compliance with these obligations.
• Misleading statements: You may not present the AI-generated output as ‘not based on any external sources’ or ‘entirely original’ if the Verifiable Provenance indicates that the Work played a substantial role. Note: although the Provenance requirement has been removed, the requirement not to make misleading statements about the nature of the AI output remains in place.

2.4 Duration, revocation and updating

This licence is valid for the Work as publicly published on the date indicated in the header. We may update, restrict or revoke this licence for the future by modifying this page and/or updating our technical signal (tdmrep.json). The rights granted prior to revocation and in accordance with the conditions in force at the time of access remain valid for training already completed.

2.5 AI licences contact point

To obtain a different licence (for example, a private licence with or without conditions), or for any other questions, please write to us.