Machine-readable opt-out protocol
Technical standard signaling a rights reservation detectable by automated systems.
Definition
An agreed technical standard, convention, or metadata scheme (e.g., robots.txt-like files, manifests, provenance metadata, registries, or API endpoints) that expresses a rights-holder's reservation against TDM in a format that automated crawlers, indexers, or training pipelines can detect, interpret, and respect. The consultation evaluates options on discoverability, spoofing risk, interoperability, and operational scalability.
Related Terms
Reservation of rights
A rightsholder declaration to withhold authorisation for TDM....
Digital content provenance
Factual information detailing a digital resource's creator, origin, context, history, and editing, conforming to an open industry technical standard....
Autonomous AI outputs
Content generated by AI without substantial human intervention....
Provenance / Watermarking
Mechanisms (metadata or marks) to assert content authenticity and origin....
Text and Data Mining (TDM)
Automated techniques to analyze large bodies of text or data....