Operate the MOW Search Only Terms Contract with Authority Finality™.
Every automated access to your website — search indexing, AI training, AI inference, archive — classified against the licence at the moment it happens, sealed as a verifiable Access Event, and rolled up into the invoice-ready unlicensed-access schedule. The KYE Publisher Access Ledger™ is the authority-and-evidence layer that lets a publisher run the Movement for an Open Web (MOW) Search Only Terms Contract (SOC) day to day: the SOC licenses access for Search Indexing only and prices every other Access Event at a default £500 per Product accessed — this Ledger detects the breach, proves it, and derives the schedule.
The Search-Only licence — and everything that falls outside it.
The SOC, stewarded by MOW and drafted by Preiskel & Co LLP, is declared to machines through the robots.txt Terms Document Locator (tdl:) line pointing at the immutable contract URL. Access for Search Indexing is licensed; the same retrieval performed for AI training, dataset creation, inference or archiving falls outside the licence and accrues the Access Fee. Publishers running against a landscape of automated accessors need named, machine-readable classification at the access boundary and signed, replay-derivable evidence per Access Event — not a reconstructed weblog weeks later.
Better evidence than reconstructed logs — signed at the moment, derivable from public keys alone.
The dominant evidence today is after-the-fact reconstruction. A KYE Protocol™ Evidence Pack™ bound to the classified access category, the attributed operator, and the advisory IP check is materially better evidence: sealed at the moment of the Access Event and Replay-Proof™ against the published JWKS a court or counterparty can verify offline. The unlicensed-access schedule is derived by the ONE breach-schedule engine — £500 per distinct Product (path) accessed outside the licence, with the Clause 14 per-website override honoured.
Classify → seal → schedule — the operator loop.
The Ledger rides the shared MOW SOC collector: a Tier A edge collector classifies live automated access, a Tier C log ingest replays historical access, and both feed the same deterministic classifier and the same pure breach-schedule engine (no re-implementation, §0). Each Access Event is sealed as evidence; the schedule rolls up licensed-vs-breach events, per-operator distinct-Product counts, the accruing £500 total, and possible-spoof events surfaced for the publisher to weigh.
Honesty bar — advisory accrual, never phantom liability.
- Advisory, not adjudicated — the schedule is built from attribution signals (user-agent match + advisory IP check), not a sealed legal judgment. The SOC sets the terms; KYE™ proves the breach; the publisher and its counsel claim the debt.
- Unattributed access is never invoiced — an
unknown-category request is not evidence of a breach by a named operator, so it never accrues a fee. - Possible spoof is surfaced, never silently dropped or invoiced as certain — a user-agent match whose connecting address sits outside the operator's published ranges is flagged per operator.
- The contract stays MOW's — KYE™ never re-hosts, re-drafts or interprets the SOC; the immutable contract URL is stewarded by MOW alone.
Steward of record: Movement for an Open Web (SOC drafted by Preiskel & Co LLP).