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Corpus Consent and Licence

Effective Invalid Date · Version 0.1-draft · Draft — under legal review

Draft — under legal review. This text has not been cleared by counsel and may change before it takes effect. The complete set of terms is reviewed once before launch.

Status: DRAFT — under legal review (LR-04). Version: 0.1-draft

Draft — under legal review. This text has not been cleared by counsel. It is published so that it can be read and tested before launch; it is accepted together with the Partner Terms and takes effect only when a cleared version is published.

This document forms part of the Partner Terms. It is required on every tier, including the free tier, because the consent it records cannot be granted after the fact: a judgment recorded today under one understanding cannot later be re-described as having been given under another.

1. What the corpus is

The "Corpus" is the body of structured human judgments recorded on the Platform: for each ballot, the item it concerns (identified by its canonical address and the metadata the publisher published for sharing), the dimensions rated, the ratings, the time, the voter's trust tier, and the aggregate results computed from them. It does not contain the article body unless a Content Tier licence (T2) was granted, and it never contains a voter's identity.

2. What the Partner consents to

By accepting, the Partner acknowledges and consents that:

• judgments recorded on its items are the voters' statements about the work and belong to the Corpus;
• OpinVera may retain, aggregate, analyse and publish those judgments and the results computed from them, on the Platform and off it, with the item identified as the Partner published it;
• OpinVera may license Corpus records to third parties — for the training and evaluation of models, for brand-safety and research uses, and as evidence of how content was judged — only where the voter who made each judgment consented to that downstream use and only in the form §4 describes;
• the Partner does not acquire any right in a judgment or in a result by claiming the outlet, by paying, or by licensing content;
• the Partner may not demand that a judgment on its item be removed from the Corpus because it is unfavourable. A judgment is removed where it was made in breach of our policies, where the voter withdraws it or deletes their account, or where the law requires.

3. What the Partner's own content contributes

The Corpus identifies an item by its canonical address, title, publication date, author name, and the outlet's name and mark — the same metadata the Partner publishes for a link to be made. Where the Partner chose a Content Tier above the floor, the summary or body it granted is held alongside the judgments for display under that grant; a Content Tier grant is not a licence to include the body in a Corpus licence, which needs a separate written licence under §5.

4. The form of a Corpus licence

A Corpus record licensed to a third party carries the item's identifying metadata, the judgments and the results, and the voter's trust tier. It carries no voter identity, no attestation, no Partner account data, and no article body unless the Partner has licensed it under §5. OpinVera remains responsible to the voters for what it licenses.

5. A content licence is separate

Where OpinVera wishes to license a Partner's content itself — the body of articles — as part of a Corpus licence, that is a licence of the Partner's copyright and is negotiated and paid for under a separate written agreement. Nothing in this document grants it, and nothing in a Content Tier grants it.

6. Withdrawal

The Partner may close its account at any time. Closing the account does not withdraw the consent in §2 for judgments already recorded, because they are the voters' and not the Partner's; it ends the Partner's participation from that day.