AI License Policy

1. Operational Summary

Quick Read

This section explains in simple terms what AI actors may do with our content without any traceability obligation.

You may:

  • Collect our content to use it as AI Training Data.
  • Train, fine-tune, or validate a Generative Model with this data.
  • Commercially exploit this model (paid API, SaaS product, internal business use, etc.).

Provided that you:

  • Guarantee Provenance (AICL-PI): Your AI system must be technically capable of providing “Verifiable Provenance” (crediting the source “TVH CONSULTING” when the generated result relies substantially on our data.)
  • Transmit metadata: Retain references (Author, URL) in any corpus or intermediate dataset created from the Work.
  • Do not republish the Work itself in the form of a substantial or near-verbatim reproduction.

You may not:

  • Use our content to train opaque or “black box” models that are unable to cite their sources.
  • Present content as spontaneously generated when it is derived from our data without attribution.

Important: Nothing in this policy limits the European legal exception for text and data mining for scientific research purposes by research organizations and cultural heritage institutions (EU Directive 2019/790).

2. Full Legal Text

AICL‑TA + PI Agreement (training authorized with provenance)

2.1 Definitions

  • “Work”: all texts, visuals, data, multimedia elements, and any other copyright-protected content publicly published on smarthys.com, unless specifically stated otherwise.
  • “AI Training Data”: any content derived 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, image, sound, code, or other synthetic output.
  • “Verifiable Provenance”: the required technical capability of an AI system to trace a result back to the specific sources that influenced it.
  • “We” / “Rights Holder”: TVH CONSULTING, legal publisher of the content on this site.
  • (The definitions of Verifiable Provenance and AI-Generated Result have been removed)

2.2 Conditional Grant of Rights

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

  • Copy, extract, and analyze the Work in order to create AI Training Data;
  • Train, fine-tune, validate, or evaluate a Generative Model using this AI Training Data;
  • Commercially exploit the resulting Generative Model, including via a paid API, a SaaS service, an integrated software offering, or internal use as part of the activities of a for-profit entity.

Condition precedent (AICL-PI Module):

This grant of rights is strictly conditional upon the ability of the Generative Model or the service that operates it to provide Verifiable Provenance. The Licensee undertakes to ensure that attribution (Publisher Name / URL) is accessible to the end user when the generated content uses the Work in a substantial manner.

2.3 Limits, Exclusions, and Cases Not Covered

  • Violation of provenance: any use of the Work to train a model that does not meet the Verifiable Provenance requirement is excluded from this license and constitutes infringement.
  • Scientific research: nothing in this license has the effect of restricting the rights granted to research organizations 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 contractual scope and remain governed by law.
  • Substantial reproduction: this license does not authorize you to republish our articles, visuals, or databases in a manner that could enter into direct competition 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 complying with these obligations.
  • Misleading statements: you may not present the AI-Generated Result as “not relying on any external source” or as “entirely new” if the Verifiable Provenance indicates that the Work played a substantial role. Note: although the Provenance obligation has been removed, the obligation not to make misleading statements about the nature of the AI output is maintained.

2.4 Term, Revocation, and Update

This license is in effect for the Work as it is publicly published on the date indicated in the header. We may update, restrict, or revoke this license for the future by modifying this page and/or updating our technical signal (tdmrep.json). Rights granted before revocation and in compliance with the conditions in force at the time of access remain valid for training already performed.

2.5 AI Licensing Contact Point

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

3. Technical Linkage Note

TDMRep Link

This policy is referenced in our /.well-known/tdmrep.json file via the “tdm-policy” key.