Complete Reservation of All Rights — No Contractual License Granted Without Explicit Written Agreement
Rights Holder: Albert Lane ("Rights Holder," "Author," "Owner") Effective Date: May 30, 2026 Governing Jurisdiction (Primary): State of Oregon, United States of America Governing Jurisdiction (Secondary): England and Wales, United Kingdom Filing Reference: SEC Whistleblower No. 17684-273-411-436 Contact: albertlane.net
This document does two different things, and it is important to keep them separate.
Part A — Statutory and common-law IP rights. Copyright, trade secret protection, and unregistered trademark rights in the Covered Works exist automatically, by operation of law, from the moment of creation or first use, in every jurisdiction that recognizes them. These rights do not depend on anyone's agreement, notice, registration, or acceptance. This document declares and documents those rights; it does not create them and does not need anyone's consent to be true. Article II is a statement of fact about ownership, not an offer that requires acceptance.
Part B — Contractual terms. Everything in this document that goes beyond what copyright/trade secret/trademark law already provides — audit rights, compliance reporting, indemnification obligations, telemetry consent, remote-update mechanisms, damages stipulations, "no good faith expectation of stability," and similar terms — is a contract, and contracts require actual mutual assent. Under U.S. and UK law, a party that has not signed, clicked to accept, or otherwise affirmatively manifested agreement is not bound by browse-wrap terms merely by viewing, crawling, or otherwise passively encountering a document. These contractual provisions bind only parties who have executed a written License Agreement with Rights Holder. Where this document uses the word "Accessing Party" in a contractual-obligation clause, that term means a party operating under such a signed agreement, not the general public, unless the clause is expressly limited to describing conduct that independently violates Part A rights (which requires no agreement to be unlawful).
Practical effect: Someone who scrapes, indexes, or trains a model on a Covered Work without permission may still be liable for copyright or trade-secret infringement under ordinary statutory law — that liability doesn't need this document's contract clauses. But they are not, by that act alone, bound by this document's audit rights, reporting obligations, or damages stipulations, because they never agreed to them. This document is drafted to make that boundary explicit rather than to overstate it.
TO CORPORATE LEGAL DEPARTMENTS: Part A of this document constitutes actual notice of asserted IP rights, which is legally meaningful (e.g., for willfulness determinations). Part B constitutes an offer to contract, open to acceptance by executing a License Agreement. No summary or excerpt substitutes for full review before agreeing to a License Agreement.
1.01 "Covered Works" means, collectively, every item listed in Article III, including all items meeting those definitions whether or not specifically enumerated. See Article III § 3.11 for the identification mechanism used to determine, in any specific dispute, whether a given artifact is a Covered Work.
1.02 "Intellectual Property" means all forms of legally recognizable exclusive rights in creations of the mind, whether currently recognized by law or recognized in the future, including: copyrights, unregistered copyrights, common law copyrights, moral rights, neighboring rights, database rights, sui generis database rights, trade secrets, trademarks, unregistered trademarks, trade dress, service marks, certification marks, collective marks, geographical indications, patents, patent applications, provisional patents, utility models, design rights, registered design rights, unregistered design rights, semiconductor topography rights, plant variety rights, and any other form of intellectual property protection.
1.03 "Unregistered Intellectual Property" means all intellectual property in Covered Works for which no formal registration has been filed or granted with any governmental authority, which nonetheless carries full legal protection under applicable common law, statutory law, international treaty, or equitable doctrine. Absence of registration does not diminish ownership or enforceability.
1.04 "Common Law Rights" means rights arising from authorship, creation, first use, or public disclosure under common law doctrines, including common law copyright (vesting at moment of creation), common law trademark (vesting at first use in commerce), and trade secret protection (vesting upon creation and reasonable steps to maintain secrecy).
1.05 "Accessing Party" means, for purposes of Part A (IP-rights) provisions, any individual, legal entity, automated system, or agent that accesses, views, receives, caches, indexes, processes, trains upon, or interacts with Covered Works in any manner. For purposes of Part B (contractual) provisions, it means a party that has executed a written License Agreement with Rights Holder — see Preliminary Notice.
1.06 "Commercial Entity" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, cooperative, joint venture, nonprofit with commercial activities, government contractor, or other organization engaged in or supporting commercial activity of any kind.
1.07 "Derivative Work" means any work based upon, incorporating, referencing, substantially similar to, or functionally equivalent to Covered Works, including translations, implementations, ports, wrappers, adaptations, compilations, and any other form in which the Covered Works may be recast, transformed, or adapted.
1.08 "AI System" means any system employing machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, large language models, foundation models, transformer architectures, diffusion models, reinforcement learning, or any other statistical or computational method for generating, predicting, classifying, recommending, or synthesizing outputs based on patterns derived from training data.
1.09 "Google" means Google LLC, Alphabet Inc., and their subsidiaries and affiliates, used here only as a named example of a Commercial Entity subject to the same rules that apply to every other Commercial Entity under Article IV. No provision of this License imposes different substantive obligations on Google than on any other party; Article V exists to make the application of Article IV concrete, not to create a separate legal standard.
1.10 "Platform Provider" means any entity providing hosting, content delivery, computation, storage, indexing, search, distribution, or networking services used to access, distribute, or process Covered Works.
Albert Lane is and shall remain the sole and exclusive owner of all Intellectual Property in and to all Covered Works. This ownership:
(a) Vests automatically upon creation of each Covered Work under 17 U.S.C. § 302 (United States) and Section 11 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ("CDPA 1988") (United Kingdom); (b) Is not contingent upon registration with the United States Copyright Office, the UK Intellectual Property Office, or any other governmental authority; (c) Is not contingent upon inclusion of a copyright notice on any particular copy or version of any Covered Work; (d) Applies equally to registered and unregistered works, published and unpublished works, disclosed and undisclosed works, completed and incomplete works, and works in any stage of development; (e) Extends to all future modifications, improvements, extensions, and derivative works of Covered Works, regardless of who creates them, unless a separate written agreement expressly assigns ownership to another party.
Note on retroactivity: This ownership vested at the moment of each Covered Work's creation — that is what "automatic" means under § 302 and CDPA § 11 — not on the Effective Date above. The Effective Date marks when this document began describing rights that, for each individual work, already existed earlier. It does not mean contractual terms in this License apply to conduct that occurred before this document existed; see Preliminary Notice, Part B.
All Covered Works for which copyright registration has been obtained with the United States Copyright Office or any equivalent authority carry the full statutory protections of registered copyright, including eligibility for statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. § 504 and attorney's fees under 17 U.S.C. § 505 in the United States, and equivalent remedies under CDPA 1988 in the United Kingdom.
All Covered Works for which no formal copyright registration has been filed or obtained carry:
(a) United States: Full copyright protection from the moment of creation under 17 U.S.C. § 302, including the right to seek registration within five years of publication for presumption of validity, and the right to recover actual damages and profits at any time. Note: statutory damages and attorney's fees under §§ 504–505 generally require registration before infringement began (or within the statutory grace period) — this document does not claim otherwise; (b) United Kingdom: Full copyright protection under CDPA 1988, including moral rights under Chapter IV (paternity, integrity, false attribution, and privacy in photographs/films); (c) International: Protection under the Berne Convention (179 signatory countries) without formality, registration, or notice, for at minimum the life of the author plus 50 years (or longer per national law).
Absence of a copyright notice, registration number, or © symbol does not constitute abandonment, dedication to the public domain, or license of any kind.
Any trademark, service mark, certification mark, or collective mark registered by Albert Lane with the USPTO, UK IPO, EUIPO, or any other trademark authority is protected under: (a) US: 15 U.S.C. § 1114 and § 1125, plus applicable state law; (b) UK: Trade Marks Act 1994 §§ 9–21, 10(3), 56; (c) International: Paris Convention and Madrid Protocol.
Names, terms, phrases, logos, symbols, and designs used by Albert Lane in connection with Covered Works that have acquired distinctiveness through use, whether or not registered, are protected as: (a) US: common law trademarks in the geographic area of use, plus 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a); (b) UK: the tort of passing off (goodwill, misrepresentation, damage), plus CDPA protection where the mark has original creative elements; (c) Trade Dress: overall visual/structural presentation under 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) and UK passing off doctrine.
Covered Works deriving independent economic value from not being generally known, and for which reasonable secrecy measures have been taken, are protected as trade secrets under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 1831–1839), applicable state Uniform Trade Secrets Act enactments, and the UK Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018 (implementing EU Directive 2016/943). Protection persists indefinitely so long as the information retains its secret character. A party who obtains a Covered Work through improper means, or uses/discloses one knowing it was obtained improperly or in breach of a duty of confidence, is liable for misappropriation regardless of visible designation.
To the extent Covered Works constitute databases: (a) UK/EEA: sui generis database right under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997; (b) US: protection as compilations under 17 U.S.C. § 101 for selection/arrangement/coordination; (c) systematic extraction of insubstantial parts on a repeated basis is treated as extraction of a substantial part.
Under CDPA 1988, Rights Holder asserts: (a) Paternity (§ 77); (b) Integrity (§ 80) — objection to derogatory treatment; (c) Against False Attribution (§ 84). These rights are non-assignable and are not waived by this License absent a specific signed waiver identifying the right and work.
3.01 Software and Code — source, object, bytecode, binaries, executables, scripts, build configs, IaC specs, in any language or notation.
3.02 Architecture and Design — system architecture specs, design docs, API specs, protocol definitions, data-flow/entity-relationship/sequence/class/state-machine/topology diagrams.
3.03 Cryptographic and Security Implementations — algorithms, KDFs, authentication/authorization schemes, token generation, signature schemes, encryption implementations, secure protocols, ZK-proof implementations.
3.04 Databases and Data — schemas, table definitions, stored procedures, migrations, seed data, fixtures, ORM configs, structured/unstructured collections authored or assembled by Rights Holder.
3.05 AI and Machine Learning Assets — prompt architectures, system instructions, fine-tuning datasets, evaluation frameworks, benchmark definitions, model configs, training scripts, inference pipelines.
3.06 Forensic and Audit Methodologies — investigation methodologies, audit frameworks, evidence-collection procedures, chain-of-custody protocols, ledger architectures, canary systems, telemetry implementations.
3.07 Documentation and Publications — technical documentation, manuals, references, whitepapers, blog posts, presentation materials.
3.08 Undisclosed and Confidential Works — works not publicly disclosed, including works in development, are covered with equal force. Third parties who obtain undisclosed works are bound by the applicable law (trade secret misappropriation, etc.) from acquisition — see Preliminary Notice on the Part A/Part B distinction, since this is an IP-rights consequence, not a contract term.
3.09 Works Without Notice — absence of a copyright notice or license header does not imply public domain status or permission to use.
3.10 Historical and Prior Versions — all prior versions, drafts, and prototypes of any Covered Work, regardless of creation date.
3.11 Identification Mechanism. Because a broad category-based definition is, by itself, hard for a third party to apply to a specific file with confidence, Rights Holder maintains (or will maintain) a public manifest at albertlane.net listing specific repositories, file hashes, or commit references confirmed as Covered Works. Where a dispute turns on whether a specific artifact is a Covered Work, the manifest — or its absence — is relevant evidence of notice, though it does not itself determine ownership (ownership under Article II is not created by the manifest and is not lost by omission from it).
The following uses require a separate written License Agreement signed by Albert Lane. Engaging in these uses without an agreement may constitute copyright, trade secret, or trademark infringement under the statutes referenced in Article VI — that exposure exists independent of this document and does not depend on accepting this document's terms.
4.01 Commercial Use — any use generating or supporting revenue, competitive advantage, or cost reduction.
4.02 Government and Military Use — use by any governmental body, military branch, intelligence agency, law enforcement agency, or contractor/subcontractor at any level of government.
4.03 Academic and Research Use — use in academic research, scholarly publication, institutional study, grant-funded projects, or coursework.
4.04 AI Training and Inference — use as training data, fine-tuning data, evaluation data, prompt examples, RAG source material, or few-shot/chain-of-thought demonstration content for any AI System.
4.05 Indexing and Crawling — automated access to build search indexes, knowledge graphs, or other structured representations of Covered Works, by any crawler including but not limited to Googlebot, Bingbot, and comparable agents.
4.06 Distribution and Redistribution — sharing, forwarding, mirroring, archiving, packaging, or publishing Covered Works.
4.07 Reverse Engineering — decompilation, disassembly, or analysis intended to derive source code, algorithms, or design from compiled or obfuscated forms.
4.08 Competitive Analysis — use of Covered Works to inform the design or improvement of competing products or services.
Article IV applies identically to every Commercial Entity. This Article names Google as a concrete illustration of how Article IV's prohibitions apply to a specific, large-scale automated crawling and AI-training operation — it does not create heightened or different substantive obligations for Google relative to any other Commercial Entity engaged in the same conduct.
5.02 Crawling Infrastructure — Absent a License Agreement, Article 4.05 applies to Googlebot, Google AdsBot, and other Google-operated crawlers on the same terms as any other automated crawler.
5.03 Search Indexing and Display — Absent a License Agreement, indexing, caching, or displaying Covered Works in Google Search, Images, Shopping, News, Books, Scholar, or Discover falls under Article 4.05/4.06 on the same terms as any other indexing service. Upon written notice from Rights Holder identifying specific infringing material, Rights Holder expects action consistent with the notice-and-takedown framework described in Article VII § 7.03.
5.04 AI Training — Absent a License Agreement, using Covered Works to train, fine-tune, or evaluate Gemini, Bard, Translate, or any other Google-operated AI System falls under Article 4.04 on the same terms as training any other AI System.
5.05–5.06 Infrastructure and Distribution — Hosting, processing, or distributing Covered Works through Google Cloud, Firebase, Workspace, YouTube, Android/Play Store, or AOSP without a License Agreement falls under Articles 4.05/4.06 on the same terms as any other infrastructure or distribution channel.
5.07 Corporate Compliance. Where a corporation's automated systems access Covered Works, ordinary principles of corporate knowledge imputation (Article VII § 7.04) apply — this is a statement of existing corporate law, not a Google-specific rule.
5.08 Statutory Exposure for Willful Infringement. Under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(2), willful copyright infringement can carry statutory damages up to $150,000 per work, and under 18 U.S.C. § 2319, willful infringement for commercial advantage can carry criminal exposure. These are statements of existing federal law applicable to any willful commercial-scale infringer, Google or otherwise — they are not demands, and Rights Holder does not condition any request for payment, licensing, or cooperation on forbearance from referring a matter to law enforcement. Any decision to make a criminal referral is made independently of, and is not a bargaining chip in, any civil licensing discussion.
The following tables summarize existing statutory frameworks that may apply to infringement of the rights described in Article II. They are provided for informational reference and do not purport to be legal advice or a complete or authoritative statement of applicable law in any matter.
| Statute | Conduct Prohibited | Maximum Exposure |
|---|---|---|
| 17 U.S.C. § 501 — Copyright Act | Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, derivatives, display/performance | Statutory: $750–$150,000/work (registered works); Criminal: up to $250,000 fine + 5 years |
| 17 U.S.C. § 1201 — DMCA Anti-Circumvention | Circumventing technological protection measures | Civil: up to $2,500/act; Criminal: up to $500,000 + 5 years (first offense) |
| 18 U.S.C. § 1030 — CFAA | Unauthorized computer access; exceeding authorized access | Civil and criminal; up to 10 years per count |
| 18 U.S.C. §§ 1831–1839 — DTSA | Trade secret misappropriation | Civil: up to 2x damages + fees; Criminal: up to 10 years + $5M fine |
| 15 U.S.C. § 1114 — Lanham Act (registered marks) | Trademark infringement; counterfeiting | Treble damages + fees for willful infringement |
| 15 U.S.C. § 1125 — Lanham Act (unregistered marks) | False designation of origin; passing off; dilution | Injunctive relief; actual damages; disgorgement |
| 18 U.S.C. § 2319 — Criminal Copyright Infringement | Willful infringement for commercial advantage | Up to 5 years + fines |
Applicable state computer-crime, trade-secret, and trademark statutes (e.g., in Oregon: ORS 164.377, ORS 646.461 et seq., ORS 647.015) may independently apply where a violation is consummated in that state.
| Statute | Conduct Covered | Maximum Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| CDPA 1988 | Copyright infringement; moral rights violations | Unlimited fine; up to 10 years for criminal infringement |
| Computer Misuse Act 1990 | Unauthorized access (s.1); with intent (s.2); serious damage (s.3ZA) | S.1: 2 years; S.2: 5 years; S.3ZA: up to life |
| Trade Marks Act 1994 | Infringement of registered marks (s.10) | Unlimited fine; up to 10 years |
| Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018 | Unlawful acquisition, use, disclosure | Civil remedies including injunctions, damages, delivery up |
| Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 | Extraction/re-utilization of substantial database parts | Civil remedies |
Berne Convention, TRIPS, WIPO Copyright Treaty, USMCA Ch. 19, EU Directive 2001/29/EC, EU Directive 2016/943, Madrid Protocol — referenced as the general international framework within which cross-border claims would be evaluated.
7.01 Geographic Scope. The IP rights described in Article II are asserted globally to the extent recognized in each jurisdiction. For any specific enforcement action, Rights Holder will select an appropriate governing law and forum based on where the claim properly arises.
7.02 Chain of Custody. As a matter of underlying IP law (not a contractual term requiring assent), each party in a chain of unauthorized acquisition or distribution may bear independent liability to the extent that party's own conduct meets the elements of infringement or misappropriation under applicable law — this is a description of how such liability already works, not an expansion of it.
7.03 Notice-and-Takedown and Platform Liability. Where a Platform Provider hosts, caches, indexes, or distributes material later identified as a Covered Work, Rights Holder will pursue removal through the applicable notice-and-takedown procedure (e.g., 17 U.S.C. § 512, or the EU Digital Services Act Article 16 notice mechanism where applicable). Consistent with existing law, a Platform Provider's statutory safe-harbor protection may not apply to material it fails to remove expeditiously after receiving legally sufficient notice, or where it has actual knowledge and the ability to control infringing activity from which it derives direct financial benefit — these are the existing statutory conditions on safe harbor, not conditions this document creates or has authority to waive.
7.04 Corporate Knowledge Imputation. Ordinary principles of corporate law govern whether knowledge held by a corporation's employees, agents, or automated systems is imputed to the organization; this document does not purport to alter those principles.
7.05 Successor Liability. To the extent liability for a violation has already accrued under applicable law, ordinary successor-liability principles determine whether it survives restructuring, merger, or acquisition.
7.06 Individual Officer Liability. To the extent applicable law recognizes personal liability for corporate officers who authorized or ratified infringing conduct, that liability is not created or altered by this document.
8.01 Scope. This Article applies only to Covered Works distributed to a party under a signed License Agreement in which that party has separately agreed, in writing, to the telemetry described below. It does not apply to, and no telemetry is deployed against, members of the public who merely view, download, or crawl publicly accessible material, since collecting operational or network data from a non-consenting party would itself raise issues under GDPR, the UK GDPR/DPA 2018, and CCPA/CPRA.
8.02 Telemetry Notice (Licensees Only). Where a License Agreement includes telemetry, the licensee acknowledges that it may collect access timestamps, execution-environment identifiers, network addresses, dependency information, and usage patterns; that this data may be transmitted to systems controlled by Rights Holder and used as evidence in enforcement proceedings; and that the specific scope is defined in the License Agreement rather than uniformly across all versions.
8.03 Automated Violation Detection (Licensees Only). Deployed instances operating under a License Agreement that includes this mechanism may detect execution outside licensed scope and generate signed violation reports, subject to the agreement's specific terms.
8.04 Forensic Cooperation (Licensees Only, or Parties Under Legal Process). A party subject to an enforcement inquiry is expected to preserve relevant records and cooperate with forensic examination conducted through legally authorized means (i.e., agreement, subpoena, or court order) — this Article does not itself authorize access to any party's systems.
8.05 Canary and Integrity Systems. Covered Works may incorporate canary tokens or integrity markers designed to detect unauthorized copying or modification. Triggering such a mechanism is evidence relevant to, but not conclusive proof of, unauthorized access.
8.06 Limitation to Lawful Means. All telemetry, monitoring, and forensic activity under this Article operates within applicable wiretapping, computer-access, and privacy law (including GDPR/UK GDPR where EU/UK data subjects are involved), and does not authorize access to any system not directly running or interacting with Covered Works under an applicable agreement.
Applies to all parties holding a valid written License Agreement with Rights Holder.
9.01 Scope Limitation. A License Agreement grants only the rights it enumerates. No rights are implied by course of dealing, trade custom, or failure to enforce.
9.02 Non-Transferability. License rights are personal to the named licensee and may not be transferred, sublicensed, or assigned without prior written consent.
9.03 Attribution. Permitted uses must include attribution to Albert Lane in the form specified in the License Agreement.
9.04 Integrity Obligation. Licensees may not use Covered Works in ways likely to bring Rights Holder into disrepute, distort the work prejudicially, falsely imply endorsement, or connect the work to fraud or illegal activity.
9.05 Compliance Reporting. Rights Holder may require periodic compliance reports as specified in the License Agreement.
9.06 Audit Right. Rights Holder or a designated representative may audit a licensee's use upon 10 days' written notice, or sooner upon reasonable belief of material breach, per the terms of the License Agreement.
9.07 Termination for Breach. Material breach terminates the granted rights; the licensee must cease use and destroy or return copies as specified.
10.01 Unilateral Modification Right (Rights Holder's Own Distribution). Rights Holder may modify, update, patch, deprecate, restrict, or withdraw Covered Works at any time in versions Rights Holder controls and distributes directly, without obligation to maintain backward compatibility.
10.02 Remote Update Capability — Licensed Deployments Only. Where a License Agreement specifically provides for it, and the licensee has agreed in writing to the mechanism, Covered Works distributed to that licensee may include remote update or license-verification functionality. Absent such a specific, separately-agreed provision, no remote termination or modification mechanism is deployed against a deployed instance, since embedding a mechanism that reaches into a third party's system without that party's authorization would itself risk exposure under the same computer-misuse statutes (CFAA; Computer Misuse Act 1990) referenced in Article VI.
10.03 Terms Updates. Updates to a License Agreement's terms require the same mutual-assent process as the original agreement; a licensee's continued use following a proposed update does not itself constitute acceptance unless the License Agreement specifically and validly provides for that mechanism (e.g., a clickwrap re-acceptance flow) and the update is materially consistent with what the licensee already agreed to.
10.04 Registry and Package Management. Rights Holder may file legitimate takedown requests with package registries (npm, Cargo, PyPI, etc.) for unauthorized publications of Covered Works, and may implement signature verification on Rights Holder's own released packages.
10.05 Version Persistence of Obligations. Obligations that have already accrued under a signed License Agreement are not discharged merely by the licensee upgrading or reverting versions.
11.01 No Warranty. COVERED WORKS PROVIDED UNDER A LICENSE AGREEMENT ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE LICENSE AGREEMENT.
11.02–11.03 Unauthorized Use. A party using Covered Works without a License Agreement does so subject to ordinary infringement liability under applicable law; this document does not purport to extract a waiver of claims from a party who never agreed to it (see Preliminary Notice), but such a party also acquires no rights or warranties by virtue of unauthorized use.
11.04 Indemnification (Licensees). A licensee who materially breaches a License Agreement agrees, per its terms, to indemnify Rights Holder consistent with what the signed agreement specifies.
11.05 Authorized Licensee Limitation. Rights Holder's aggregate liability under any License Agreement is limited as specified in that agreement; typical limits exclude indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, subject to the agreement's actual terms and applicable law (some jurisdictions restrict the enforceability of broad liability waivers, particularly for gross negligence or willful misconduct).
12.01–12.02 Amendment Right (Rights Holder's Own Terms). Rights Holder may amend this document's public-facing statement of asserted rights and default License Agreement template at any time by publishing the update at albertlane.net.
12.03–12.04 Effect on Existing Licensees. For a party operating under an already-signed License Agreement, amendments to this public document do not modify that agreement's terms unless the agreement itself provides a mechanism for incorporating updates and that mechanism is followed. A signed licensee should not assume static terms are guaranteed indefinitely if the agreement includes an amendment mechanism they agreed to — that expectation-setting is between Rights Holder and that specific licensee, per their contract, not a claim asserted against the general public.
12.05 Addendum Superiority. Between a licensee's signed agreement and any addendum, the most recently executed instrument controls unless it specifies otherwise.
12.06 Survival. Obligations, rights, and violations under a given version of a signed License Agreement are governed by the version in effect when the relevant event occurred, unless the agreement specifies otherwise.
(a) Governed by Oregon law, excluding conflict-of-law principles, for US-arising disputes. (b) Federal courts in the District of Oregon and the Ninth Circuit have jurisdiction over federal IP claims; Rights Holder may bring suit in any district where venue is proper. (c) Statutory damages under 17 U.S.C. § 504 require registration consistent with 17 U.S.C. § 412's timing requirements. (d) Injunctive relief is available under 17 U.S.C. § 502 and applicable trade secret/trademark statutes per their standard elements.
(a) Additionally governed by England and Wales law for UK-arising disputes. (b) IPEC and the High Court (Chancery Division) have jurisdiction over IP claims. (c) Moral rights under CDPA 1988 are asserted and not waived absent a specific signed waiver. (d) Database rights under the 1997 Regulations are asserted for the applicable 15-year term. (e) Delivery-up/destruction (CDPA s.99) and seizure (s.100) remedies are available per their statutory conditions. (f) CDPA s.107 and Computer Misuse Act 1990 offences apply per their statutory elements to UK-based conduct.
(a) Where a violation involves multiple jurisdictions, Rights Holder may pursue remedies in each independently. (b) Damages in one jurisdiction do not cap another, subject to anti-double-recovery principles. (c) Cross-border transport of Covered Works does not exempt a party from liability under origin or destination law. (d) Rights Holder may seek cross-border injunctive relief and appropriate third-party discovery orders to identify unknown violators, through proper legal process.
14.01 Severability. An unenforceable provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary to be enforceable, or severed if that's not possible, without affecting the rest.
14.02 No Implied License. No license arises from failure to enforce, prior dealing, trade custom, the format of Covered Works, oral representation, platform terms of service, open-source norms, or public accessibility alone.
14.03 No Waiver. Failure to enforce a provision against one party or at one time does not waive it as to others or future violations.
14.04 Entire Agreement. As to a specific licensee, this document together with their executed License Agreement constitutes the entire agreement on that subject matter.
14.05 Notice. Written notices go to Rights Holder via albertlane.net. Rights Holder may update contact information without amending substantive terms.
14.06 Construction. Ambiguities in a signed License Agreement are construed per its own terms and applicable contract-interpretation law; this clause does not purport to override generally applicable rules of construction as to non-signing parties, since none exist as to them.
14.07 Currency. Monetary amounts are in USD unless otherwise specified.
Rights Holder: Albert Lane Primary Contact: albertlane.net Filing Reference: SEC Whistleblower No. 17684-273-411-436
License inquiries must be made in writing. Verbal communications do not modify license terms unless confirmed in writing. Rights Holder reserves the right to decline any license request without explanation.
Notice regarding current unauthorized use: Rights Holder is aware that automated indexing and AI-training access to publicly available material occurs continuously across the industry. This document constitutes notice of the IP rights asserted in Article II. Parties who believe their use may implicate these rights are invited to contact Rights Holder to discuss a License Agreement; voluntary disclosure and good-faith engagement will be considered favorably in any resulting discussion, but no request for payment or cooperation is conditioned on forgoing any lawful right either party has, including the right to seek independent legal advice.
Authored: May 30, 2026. Revised: [insert revision date]. Albert Lane — All Rights Reserved SEC Whistleblower No. 17684-273-411-436
This document does not constitute legal advice to any party, including Rights Holder. It was substantially revised to address enforceability concerns identified in external review; that revision itself does not guarantee enforceability in any specific jurisdiction or dispute. Both Rights Holder and any Accessing Party should retain independent legal counsel for matters arising under this document.
This document itself is a Covered Work subject to copyright protection. It may not be reproduced, modified, or used as a template without written authorization from Albert Lane.