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What does the GPAI Code of Practice copyright chapter commit signatories to do about web crawling, robots.txt and other rights-reservation signals, and what must be public?

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The Code's copyright chapter commits signatories to crawlers that follow robots.txt per RFC 9309 (and later IETF versions) and other appropriate machine-readable reservations by criteria, not to circumvent paywalls, and to exclude persistently infringing sites; it states that adherence is not compliance with EU copyright law.

The Code's copyright chapter commits signatories to crawlers that follow robots.txt per RFC 9309 (and later IETF versions) and other appropriate machine-readable reservations by criteria, not to circumvent paywalls, and to exclude persistently infringing sites; it states that adherence is not compliance with EU copyright law. Curator qualifications: Documents read 2026-10-22; not legal advice. Measures 1.2, 1.4-1.5 details from producer reading. Limitations: Documents read 2026-10-22; not legal advice. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/118480",
      "note": "Copyright chapter Recital (a) and Measure 1.3(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/118115",
      "note": "Copyright chapter Recital (a) and Measure 1.3(1)(a)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] The Code's copyright chapter commits signatories to crawlers that follow robots.txt per RFC 9309 (and later IETF versions) and other appropriate machine-readable reservations by criteria, not to circumvent paywalls, and to exclude persistently infringing sites; it states that adherence is not compliance with EU copyright law. · locator: Copyright chapter Recital (a) and Measure 1.3(1)(a) source

Rights

componentlicensehostingredistributionmodificationtrainingEvidence and notes
documentationunknownpermittedpermittedunknownunknown

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