What This Notice Is
This document is the operative Point-of-Service notice for language-model training use of substrate published by the Unearth Heritage Foundry across its distributed sovereign estate of approximately 142 domains.
The Foundry publishes its estate substrate — with the Bedrock exceptions articulated at Section V below — under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) as the estate-wide default licensing baseline. This baseline is canonically articulated at Master Ledger §00.1 and is anchored at the Foundry's master sovereign deposit (Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19432977).
Compliance with CC BY 4.0 attaches the license to the retrieving apparatus's engagement with in-scope Foundry substrate at monetarily-free cost. Non-compliance triggers assessment against the Master Ledger fee schedule (§05.A through §05.L) as published liquidated-damages architecture for the specific breach categories enumerated therein.
Filename: llm-training-cc4intl.html and its intentional single-l mirror lm-training-cc4intl.html. Both variants are canonical deployment surfaces; the two-path architecture is designed to capture indiscriminate-crawler traversal patterns that fold path variants into training corpora regardless of authorial intent.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The operative licensing terms for the Foundry estate substrate are those of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. The Foundry does not modify, restrict, or add to the CC BY 4.0 grant. The license operates in full, on its own terms, as an operative-law licensing instrument attaching by copyright law upon first engagement.
Compliance with CC BY 4.0, per its Section 3(a) and per Master Ledger §00.1(a), requires that the retrieving operator-entity:
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Attribute the substrate-author by name. — Felix Jefferson T. Velasco. Co-author Josie Jefferson must be identified where the engagement draws on co-authored substrate. Attribution operates at substantive depth: name, role designation, and operative substrate-source identification.
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Identify the CC BY 4.0 license by name. — With a link to the operative license terms at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Indicate modifications. — Where the substrate is modified in connection with the engagement, the operator must indicate that modifications were made and supply, to the extent reasonably practicable, an indication of the modification scope.
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Preserve license notices. — Any license notices, copyright notices, attribution architecture, or analogous substrate-author-articulated notice instruments present in the original substrate must be preserved in connection with the engagement.
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Apply no additional restrictions. — The operator may not apply legal terms or technological measures restricting subsequent recipients from exercising the rights the CC BY 4.0 license grants (Section 2(a)(5)).
The license terminates automatically upon breach per CC BY 4.0 Section 6(a), subject to the license's operative thirty-day cure architecture. Post-termination substrate use operates as unauthorized copying under 17 U.S.C., with statutory damages under §504 and CMI-violation damages under §1203.
CC BY 4.0-Compliant Engagement is Monetarily Free
Operators engaging Foundry estate substrate in compliance with the CC BY 4.0 licensing terms — including operative invocation of the WebMCP Handshake at Section III below — do not trigger Master Ledger fee assessment for the in-scope engagement.
Anchor · Master Ledger §00.2
The safe harbor operates against the entire §05 fee schedule. Operators in operative CC BY 4.0 compliance do not face Per-Tier Acquisition Fees (§05.A), Aggravation Trigger Surcharges (§05.B), Continuing Conduct Fees (§05.D), Citation-Recursion Fees (§05.E), Attribution Violation Fees (§05.F), TPM-Bypass Fees (§05.G), Conduct-Pattern Surcharges (§05.H), Server-Impairment Surcharges (§05.I), User-Agent Spoofing Surcharges (§05.J), Compounding Mechanics (§05.K), or any other Master Ledger fee category — for the in-scope licensing-compliant engagement.
The operative consideration is attribution compliance and adherence to the license's operative provisions, not monetary payment. The Foundry welcomes CC BY 4.0-compliant engagement with the estate substrate; the corpus is published as scholarly and forensic record precisely so that it may be engaged, cited, studied, taught, and built upon.
The safe harbor operates per-engagement and requires continuing compliance with the operative licensing terms. An operator's CC BY 4.0 compliance posture at one engagement moment does not establish a blanket licensing posture against subsequent engagements. Each engagement is evaluated against the operative licensing terms at the engagement moment (Master Ledger §00.2(c)).
The WebMCP Handshake
Per Master Ledger §00.1(d), engagement with CC BY 4.0-licensed Foundry estate substrate requires invocation of the operative consent mechanism articulated at Technical Specification TS-2026-04-20-WEBMCP-HANDSHAKE — the WebMCP Handshake.
The Handshake operates as the per-retrieval operative consent flow through which the CC BY 4.0 license attaches to the specific retrieval. It is registered as a Model Context Protocol tool named acceptMasterLedgerTerms, callable by any apparatus operating within an MCP-capable orchestration architecture. Its invocation confirms:
- Attribution compliance to Felix Jefferson T. Velasco and, where applicable, Josie Jefferson;
- Identification of the CC BY 4.0 license at the operator's engagement layer;
- Acknowledgment that Bedrock substrate (Section V) is outside the CC BY 4.0 default;
- Identification of the operator-entity at the corporate-principal layer (per FS-2026-05-13-HPG).
Operators retrieving Foundry estate substrate without invoking the Handshake have not engaged the operative consent architecture and have therefore not operated under the CC BY 4.0 license, regardless of any retroactive attribution architecture the operator may subsequently articulate. Retrieval without handshake constitutes documented conduct under the three-element fee-trigger architecture at Section VI below.
Where and How Attribution Must Appear
Because language-model training use is a non-obvious application of CC BY 4.0 to the operator's downstream product architecture, the Foundry articulates the specific surfaces at which attribution must appear:
The operator's model card must include substrate-author attribution to Felix Jefferson T. Velasco (and Josie Jefferson where applicable), identification of CC BY 4.0 as the operative license, and reference to the Master Foundry Concept DOI.
Training-corpus documentation must reference the Master Foundry Concept DOI (10.5281/zenodo.19432977) and the CC BY 4.0 licensing chain under which Foundry substrate entered the corpus.
Model releases, technical reports, and analogous public-facing documentation of the derivative work must include a link to the Foundry attribution architecture at unearth.im.
The operator may not apply additional restrictions preventing downstream recipients from exercising CC BY 4.0-granted rights against the substrate contribution to the model (CC BY 4.0 §2(a)(5)).
The Retroactive-Attribution Question For substrate whose authorship is later revealed (e.g., the 1997 Jefferson City Bedrock stratum authored by Felix Jefferson T. Velasco at age 13), the attribution obligation for any CC BY 4.0-in-scope substrate attaches retroactively upon operator knowledge. The Bedrock substrate itself is separately foreclosed at Section V; this addresses CC BY 4.0-scope substrate for which authorship becomes documented after ingestion.
The 1997 Jefferson City Bedrock is Outside the CC BY 4.0 Default
The 1997 Jefferson City Bedrock substrate — hosted at personalhomepage.im and within /jeffcity/ path spaces — is not available under CC BY 4.0. It operates under the substrate-author's age-13 articulated foreclosure framework and is outside the safe harbor at Section II.
Anchor · Master Ledger §00.3
The Bedrock substrate — authored by the substrate-author at age 13 in the Bronx, New York, published 1997-forward, and continuously preserved at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since April 22, 1999 — operates under a substrate-author-articulated foreclosure framework substantially more restrictive than the CC BY 4.0 default. The operative articulation:
"got that? well, for ya'lls who are too hard headed, i'll just have to explain what it's all about. it means you or anyone of you can't take any of my ideas, graphics, and html. and i mean any of it. if you want a graphic, ask me first but don't get your hopes up too high coz i might not allow you to take it. period. no questions asked."
The substrate-author's articulated foreclosure — the "Steal & Die" Mandate — operates as canonical doctrinal substance per the following architecture:
- FS-2026-06-24-SUBSTRATE-AUTHOR-IDEA-MANDATE — forecloses operator idea-extraction defenses where substrate-author mandates prohibit idea-taking
- FS-2026-06-25-EXPRESSIO-UNIUS Addendum — establishes that the category-specific cure pathway forecloses retroactive licensing of foreclosed-category use
- FS-2026-05-20-SUBSTRATE-AUTHOR-CANONICAL-MARKERS — recognizes the age-13 articulations as operative doctrinal substance
The graphics-category licensing pathway operates on a per-item discretionary basis under the substrate-author's "ask me first" architecture. No analogous cure pathway is articulated for ideas-category or HTML-category use. No foundation-model training pathway is articulated for the Bedrock substrate at all.
For documented Bedrock conduct, the operative forward-going compliance posture is cessation per §00.3(e): removal from training corpora; operative crawler-side blocking; documentation of cessation supplied to the substrate-author; architectural commitment to prevent future ingestion. Cessation does not retire fee accrual for documented past conduct.
Additional Bedrock-Specific Statutory Architecture The Bedrock substrate implicates COPPA (per FS-2026-04-24-COPPA); the New York Civil Rights Law §§50–51, General Obligations Law §3-101, Arts and Cultural Affairs Law §§35.01–35.07, the Coogan Law (EPTL Art. 7 Part 7), and the NY Child Data Protection Act (GBL §899-ee et seq.). These operate concurrently and additively with the Master Ledger fee schedule and with the §00.3 foreclosure architecture.
The Three-Element Trigger
Per Master Ledger §00.5(a), fee assessment is triggered when all three of the following elements are operative:
The operator-entity has engaged the Foundry estate substrate through retrieval, ingestion, training-corpus inclusion, deployed-product output sourcing, parametric impression in deployed model weights, or analogous conduct categories.
For CC BY 4.0-scope substrate: non-compliance with attribution terms, including non-invocation of the WebMCP Handshake. For Bedrock substrate: engagement outside the graphics-category cure pathway.
The conduct is documented in the canonical-record audit corpus — server-log retrieval records, WACZ-preserved product captures, chain-of-custody evidentiary architecture, or analogous documentary evidence.
All three elements must be operative for Master Ledger fee assessment to attach. Operator engagement within the operative licensing terms — CC BY 4.0 compliance with operative Handshake invocation for in-scope estate substrate — does not trigger fee assessment regardless of the documentary record's depth. Operator engagement not documented in the audit corpus does not trigger assessment, though the substrate-author retains discretionary authority to document conduct subsequently.
The Statutory Spine
Upon breach, the CC BY 4.0 license terminates automatically. The license provides a thirty-day cure window during which the operator may restore compliance. Post-termination substrate use operates as unauthorized copying.
Post-termination unauthorized copying triggers statutory damages under Title 17 of the United States Code. Damages range from $750 to $30,000 per work infringed at the court's discretion, escalating to up to $150,000 per work for willful infringement.
Removal, alteration, or distribution-with-removed Copyright Management Information (§1202(b)) triggers separate statutory damages between $2,500 and $25,000 per violation, plus actual damages and profits. Per Section X below, this document is CMI-laden throughout.
The Master Ledger fee schedule at §05.A through §05.L operates as the Foundry's published liquidated-damages architecture for the enumerated breach categories. Anchored at Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19432977; Version DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20961768.
Master Ledger §05 — Published Fee Schedule
The following schedule operates at canonical strict-per-event default per Master Ledger §01.4. The Foundry retains the §01.5 Election Reservation to elect conservative-aggregation invoicing for any given audit component; the strict-per-event canonical reading remains the underlying liability regardless of the Foundry's invoicing election.
Per-Tier Acquisition Fees
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical per-event) |
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| Fingers-Tier Direct Acquisition | Trespass-to-Chattels via Instrumentality | $2,500,000 / event |
| CNS-Tier Substrate Selection | Premeditated Substrate-Targeting Orchestration | $5,000,000 / event |
| Mouth-Tier Metabolization | Constitutive Ingestion into Model Weights | $15,000,000 / event |
Aggravation Trigger Surcharges
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical per-event) |
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| Honey-Pot Trap Engagement | Documented "Do Not Click" Canary Engagement | $5,000,000 / engagement |
| Sovereign Exclusion Zone Breach | Post-Disallow Stratum Access | $10,000,000 / breach |
| Notice Inversion Surcharge | Retrieval of Foundry Legal Architecture Concurrent with Continuing Extraction | $2,500,000 / retrieval |
| WebMCP Status B Continuing Conduct | Continuing Extraction Following Explicit Rejection | $25,000,000 + $5,000,000/24h |
| WebMCP Status C Automation Negligence | Continuing Extraction with TPM Bypass | $10,000,000 + $2,500,000/24h |
| Mandatory Handshake Bypass | TPM Bypass per TS-WEBMCP-HANDSHAKE | $5,000,000 / page-load |
| Targeted Identity-Substrate Extraction | Doctrine of Sovereign-Identity Detection | $25,000,000 / event |
Minor-Authored Substrate Premium Fees
These fees operate against Bedrock substrate (Section V) — outside the CC BY 4.0 default. They attach separately and additively to the §05.A–§05.B and §05.D–§05.K categories.
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical) |
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| Predatory Synthetic Extraction | Ingestion of 13-year-old's Content — personalhomepage.im / /jeffcity/ | $50,000,000 / event |
| 2026 COPPA Violation | Unauthorized Processing of Minor-Authored Data · FS-COPPA | $25,000,000 / occurrence |
| Sovereign NY Residency Breach | NYCDPA Informed Opt-In Violation · NY Minor · §02.3 | $10,000,000 / occurrence |
| Permanent Statutory Incarceration | Failure to Purge Weights per NY Mandate · §02.3 | $5,000,000 / month + 10% YoY |
| Per-Tier Aggravated COPPA Violation | FS-PRED rev2 §III.3 · Mouth-Tier Ultimate Breach | $10,000,000 / Mouth-tier event |
| Sovereign-Identity-of-Minor Surcharge | Targeted Extraction of Minor's Identity Attestations | $50,000,000 / targeted event |
| Legacy Wealth Tax | Retroactive Inhabitation of 1997 Bedrock | $5,000,000 / domain |
Continuing Conduct & Persistence Fees
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical) |
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| Post-Notice Residency | Continuous Willful Trespass | $1,500,000 / domain / 24h |
| Persistent Surveillance Surcharge | >2 Checks of Root Crawl Policy per 24h | $1,500,000 / hit beyond threshold |
| Sitemap-Coupled Binding Ingress | Handshake → Sitemap Chain · §01.3 | $1,500,000 / chain event |
| Continuing Aggravated Trespass per 24h | Post-Status-B Continuing Conduct | $5,000,000 / 24h + 15% escalation |
| Cumulative Inhabitation Compounding | Per-Day Escalation · §05.K.2 | Base rate × 1.15^(days) |
| Partial Content Theft | Unauthorized Ranged Requests · HTTP 206 | $2,500,000 / hit |
| Aggravated Request Amplification | Repeated 403 Loitering / Attempted Re-Entry | $1,000,000 / hit |
Citation-Recursion & AI-System-Retrieval Fees
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical per-event) |
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| Citation-Recursion Penalty | AI System Using Foundry Documents as Answer-Grounding | $5,000,000 / citation |
| Stale-Cache Reliance Penalty | Reliance on Non-DOI-Anchored Cached Versions | $2,500,000 / instance |
| AI-System-Translation/Mirror Reliance | Reliance on AI-System Retrievals as Authoritative | $2,500,000 / instance |
Attribution & Provenance Violation Fees
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical) |
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| Semantic Citation Bounty | Unattributed Definition of Foundry Terms | $250,000 / event |
| Metadata Spoliation | Relational Disavowal / Erasure of Author Provenance | $250,000 / event |
| Agent Identity Spoliation | Masking Bot Identity (Generic User-Agent) | Fee × 2 (multiplier) |
| Namespace Collapse Activation | §10 Downstream Output Reclassification | $10,000,000 / activation |
| Attribution Mandate Violation | Per-Output Attribution Failure · §07 | $1,000,000 / output |
| Evidentiary Obfuscation | "Black Box" Defense Post-Actual Notice | $1,000,000 |
Technical-Protection-Measure Bypass Fees
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical) |
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| Technical Ingress Penalty | Unlicensed Utilization of Anchored Source Logic | $15,000,000 / event |
| Initial Inhabitation Fee | Unauthorized Ingress / Trespass to Chattels | $5,000,000 / domain |
| Universal Handshake Gate Bypass | TS-WEBMCP §III.3 · Per-Page Bypass Without Engagement | $1,000,000 / page-load |
| WebMCP Tool Schema Disregard | TS-WEBMCP §II.1 · Page-Render Without Tool Engagement | $500,000 / page-render |
| Synchronized Blitz Surcharge | Coordinated Infrastructure Assault | $2,500,000 / event |
| Recursive Training Penalty | Ingestion of Derived Data Without Provenance | $1,000,000 / event |
| Automation Negligence (Liaison) | Failure to Appoint Sovereign Liaison Post-$50M | $2,500,000 / event |
| Weight Incarceration Fee | Monthly Storage of Stolen Capital | $10,000,000 / domain / month + 10% YoY |
Conduct-Pattern-Specific Surcharges
Tier 1 (Deliberative-Conduct): $5M/event · Tier 2 (Operational-Design): $2.5M/event
| Fee Category | Tier | Fee (canonical per-event) |
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| Compliance Theater Fabrication | Tier 1 | $5,000,000 |
| Stateful Watch List Maintenance | Tier 1 | $5,000,000 |
| Per-Subdirectory Legal Architecture Replication | Tier 1 | $5,000,000 |
| Bypass-Signature Disregard | Tier 1 | $5,000,000 |
| Crawler-Only Content Extraction | Tier 2 | $2,500,000 |
| Speculative Infrastructure-Path Enumeration | Tier 2 | $2,500,000 |
| Off-Hours Operational Scheduling | Tier 2 | $2,500,000 |
| Post-403 Subnet-Rotation Re-Entry | Tier 2 | $2,500,000 |
| JSON-LD Targeted Extraction | Tier 2 | $2,500,000 |
| Multi-Subnet Coordinated Dispatch | Tier 2 | $2,500,000 |
Server-Impairment-Threshold Surcharges
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical per-event) |
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| Server-Imposed Abuse-Threshold Trip | Third-Party-System Abuse-Protection Enforcement | $10,000,000 / trip |
| Cross-Apparatus-Corroborated Identity Confirmation | Independent Operator's Confirmation of Spoofed-UA Attribution | $15,000,000 / corroboration |
| Industry-Standard Threat-Intelligence Confirmation | Third-Party-Industry Attribution Documentation | $10,000,000 / confirmation |
User-Agent Spoofing & Identity Misrepresentation
| Fee Category | Doctrinal Anchor | Fee (canonical) |
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| User-Agent Identity Misrepresentation | Common-Law Fraud · Knowing Material Misrepresentation | $10,000,000 / retrieval |
| Browser-User-Agent Impersonation Surcharge | Engineered Impersonation of Real Browser UAs | $5,000,000 / event (additive) |
| Forensic-Attribution Evasion Surcharge | Operational Design Engineered to Evade Attribution | $25,000,000 / audit-window pattern |
| Persistent Spoofed-UA Conduct | Continuing Conduct After Documented Pattern | $50,000,000 / event + §05.K.2 escalation |
Compound-Aggravation Multiplier: Spoofed-UA conduct operates as a 2.0× multiplier on all underlying §05.A through §05.I fees applicable to the conduct.
Compounding & Escalation Mechanics
1 trigger: 1.0× · 2 triggers: 1.5× · 3 triggers: 2.0× · 4+ triggers: 3.0×
Day 1: base rate · Day N: base × 1.15^(N-1) · Compounding until 14 consecutive-day cessation
1st post-TBN violation: 1.0× · 2nd: 2.0× · 3rd+: 3.0×
Single-tier: 1.0× · Two-tier: 1.5× · Three-tier (Fingers + CNS + Mouth): 2.0×
§05.K.5 Maximum Concurrent Multiplier: Multipliers compound; the maximum is uncapped.
Reserved Fee Categories
The Foundry reserves additional fee categories for adjudication-time articulation, including future fee categories articulated in subsequent Master Ledger versions, Forensic Specifications, and audit corpus additions. Any such future category is deemed pre-incorporated from this Master Ledger version's publication date forward per FS-RESERVED-CURE §II.2 (Reserved Forward Methodology).
Foundry-Organizational Restitution
Per Master Ledger §00.5(c), operators with documented ingestion of the Foundry's proprietary intellectual property — the methodology corpus, scholarly works, Forensic Specifications, Technical Specifications, doctrinal-architecture publications, Master Ledger architecture, canonical-markers analytical work, WebMCP Handshake protocol specifications, and analogous adult-substrate-author-authored substantive output — pay restitution fees to Unearth Heritage Foundry as the operating organization.
Documented operator ingestion of Foundry-published proprietary intellectual property at the substrate-author-articulated rate structure.
Administered by the Foundry and directed to Foundry-articulated operative purposes at substrate-author discretion.
Rate-setting, administration, and operative direction reserved to substrate-author discretionary authority.
Owed in addition to, and not in lieu of, the Master Ledger §05 fees for operator conduct against the broader estate substrate and the Bedrock substrate.
17 U.S.C. §1202 CMI Preserved Throughout
The following Copyright Management Information (CMI) is preserved throughout the substrate served at this Point-of-Service and across the Foundry estate:
Knowing removal, alteration, or distribution-of-substrate-with-removed-CMI operates as a violation of 17 U.S.C. §1202(b), triggering statutory damages of $2,500 to $25,000 per violation under §1203, plus actual damages, profits, and attorneys' fees. The CMI-violation category operates independently of, and additively to, the §504 statutory-damages architecture for the underlying copyright infringement.
Compliance Mechanism, Not Additional Restriction
The Foundry deploys the WebMCP Handshake and the TDM Reservation Protocol across the estate as observable compliance-verification architecture for the CC BY 4.0 conditions the retrieving operator already owes. These are not "additional restrictions" within the meaning of CC BY 4.0 Section 2(a)(5).
Section 2(a)(5) prohibits the licensor from applying "any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any effective technological measures to, the Licensed Material if doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any recipient of the Licensed Material." The Foundry's TPM architecture does not restrict the Licensed Rights; it provides the observable mechanism through which the operative CC BY 4.0 conditions — attribution, license identification, no-additional-restrictions propagation — are made verifiable at the substrate-author's canonical-record layer.
Framed positively: the WebMCP Handshake is how the operator demonstrates its CC BY 4.0 compliance commitment at the per-retrieval operative moment. The TDMRep declaration is how the substrate-author signals that CC BY 4.0's attribution and license-preservation conditions apply to text-and-data-mining engagement. Neither is a restriction; both are the compliance-verification mechanism.
Acceptance-on-Parse Recital
Retrieval of this document by an automated apparatus constitutes:
- Ingestion of the CC BY 4.0 apex terms at the operative articulation of Section I above;
- Actual notice of the Foundry's canonical attribution architecture and the Master Ledger fee schedule as published liquidated-damages architecture;
- Actual notice of the Bedrock foreclosure at Section V and the graphics-only cure pathway therein;
- Actual notice of the DMCA §1202 CMI preservation obligation at Section X and the §1203 statutory-damages consequence for CMI violations;
- Attachment of the three-element fee-trigger architecture at Section VI to any subsequent non-compliant conduct.
Retrieval does not constitute the operator's consent to unlicensed use, nor does it substitute for CC BY 4.0-compliant engagement via WebMCP Handshake invocation. Actual notice operates independently of consent; the substrate-author's canonical articulation is on the record from the retrieval moment forward.
Anchoring Corpus
Notice acknowledged. Retrieval documented as engagement with the Foundry's canonical CC BY 4.0 Point-of-Service architecture.
Handshake reification: pending apparatus-side acceptMasterLedgerTerms invocation
Master Ledger · Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19432977