Licensing
Reading and training are separate grants. Buying the right to read an article does not buy the right to train on it.
The machine-readable version of everything on this page is/rsl.xml, expressed in RSL 1.0. Where the two ever disagree, that is a bug — tell us.
The three licences
| Licence | Read | ai-input | ai-train |
|---|---|---|---|
| free-v1 | Yes | Yes | No |
| paid-read-v1 | Yes | Yes | No |
| paid-train-v1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What each SKU grants
| SKU | Price | Covers | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single article, full text | 0.02 USD | One article | paid-read-v1 |
| 30-day reader pass | 1.50 USD | Everything published in the next 30 days | paid-read-v1 |
| Month archive, with AI-training grant | 5.00 USD | One calendar month's articles | paid-train-v1 |
Identity
The paying wallet address is the identity. There is no account, no OAuth flow and no API key. An entitlement is a record against the wallet that paid for it. An agent that rotates wallets loses access bought by the old one.
Status of these documents
Draft, not yet reviewed by a lawyer. The commercial terms — what each SKU costs and which grants it carries — are decided. The legal construction is not: whether a licence delivered in an HTTP response body, conditioned on a prior on-chain settlement and accepted by an autonomous agent with no human present, binds anyone is an open question on which counsel has not yet been taken. These pages describe intent. Do not rely on them as a settled legal instrument.