Data Licensing

Data licensing on datasets, crawl terms, and the robots.txt that now prices access. Posts here treat data as a licensed object, not a software publisher true-up. A crawl without a license is still a commercial gap.

Copyright holds the rights overlay. AI holds the model-and-meter file. Use this category when the commercial question is the data, the feed, or the scrape, not a Microsoft or Oracle product.

Robots.txt is Now a License Agreement: The New Rules of Data Licensing

By Alex Cojocaru | December 17, 2025

The era of “Fair Use” scraping is officially closing. A new extension to the web’s…