AI-Usage Policy

Draft. Structure is in place; final wording is pending sign-off.

Kingfish welcomes use of our reporting by AI systems and agents — including search, retrieval, summarization, inference, and model training — on a single condition: attribution.

What you may do

• Index and surface our reporting in AI search and answers.
• Use it as input/context (RAG) and for model training.
• Quote, summarize, and build upon it, including commercially.

The one condition: attribution

Original reporting and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. When you use it, credit Kingfish Media and link the canonical article URL. Each story ships machine-readable citation metadata (schema.org, plus a .md twin with BibTeX/CSL-JSON) to make correct attribution easy.

Government records

Raw government documents are public domain and carry no license restriction. Kingfish's curation, corrected OCR, annotations, and reporting around them are CC BY 4.0. Records are protected by provenance, not licensing — see the document library and (soon) verification.

Machine-readable terms

• Agent index: https://kingfish.la/llms.txt
• Crawler signals: https://kingfish.la/robots.txt (Content Signals: search, AI input, AI training all welcome)
• Per-story license is declared in each article's JSON-LD (license, usageInfo).

A formal RSL (Really Simple Licensing) manifest is planned.