MOW Search Only Terms Contract (SOC) — publisher content-access authority
MOW Search Only Terms Contract (SOC) — publisher content-access authority — 50% of in-scope requirements covered.
8 requirements · 7 in scope (7 designed) · 1 out-of-scope (outside KYE™’s authority layer). The 50% is weighted over the in-scope base.
Source: The Search Only Terms Contract: for Access and Use of Website is a machine-readable standard contract stewarded by the Movement for an Open Web (MOW) and drafted by Preiskel & Co LLP (launched July 2026). It licenses website access for Search Indexing only, prices every other Access Event at a default £500 per Product, and is declared to machines through the robots.txt Terms Document Locator (tdl:) line pointing at the immutable contract URL https://m4ow.uk/socw/2.txt. KYE Protocol™ maps the contract as the authority-and-evidence layer a publisher needs to operate it day to day — classify every automated access against the licence at the moment of access, seal each Access Event as verifiable evidence, and derive the invoice-ready unlicensed-access schedule — while the contract itself remains MOW's: KYE™ never re-hosts, re-drafts or interprets it (the SOC sets the terms; KYE™ proves the breach). · License: Copyright © 2026 Preiskel & Co LLP; contract text distributable in full, unaltered, with copyright notice; canonical version-controlled URL stewarded by MOW
By category
| Category | Reqs | Enforced | Designed | Advisory | Deferred | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine-readable terms declaration | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50% |
| Purpose-limited licensed access | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50% |
| Access-event evidence & records | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50% |
| Access-fee accrual & waiver conditions | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50% |
| AI-scraping & dataset prohibition | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50% |
| Database-rights & bulk-extraction restriction | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50% |
| Contract formation & court enforcement | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Accessibility & reader carve-out | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50% |
Every requirement → the KYE™ artefact that enforces it
| ID | Title | Status | KYE™ enforcement |
|---|---|---|---|
mow-search-only-contract.terms-document-locator | The applicable contract is declared machine-readably at the access boundary via the robots.txt Terms Document Locator (tdl:) line and License line pointing at the official immutable MOW contract URL, so no automated accessor can claim ignorance of the terms | designed | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalrule_packs: kye:rule-pack:action-admissibilityconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
mow-search-only-contract.purpose-limited-index-access | Access to Website Content is licensed for the narrow purpose of Search Indexing only; the same retrieval act performed for AI training, dataset creation or bulk reuse falls outside the licence (Clause 4, Licence to Access Website) | designed | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalrule_packs: kye:rule-pack:action-admissibilityconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
mow-search-only-contract.access-event-evidence | Every Access Event is recorded with the accessing party's identity signals (IP address, User-Agent), the Products accessed, and time stamps, forming the evidentiary basis on which unlicensed access is established (Contract evidence provisions; FAQ 'How do you prove that scraping or AI training has taken place?') | designed | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalrule_packs: kye:rule-pack:action-admissibilityconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
mow-search-only-contract.access-fee-accrual | An Access Fee of £500 per Product accessed accrues automatically for each Access Event outside the unwaived licensed scope, with the sum overridable per-website under the Clause 14 cost-of-breach override; the waiver applies only while every licence condition is met | designed | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalrule_packs: kye:rule-pack:action-admissibilityconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
mow-search-only-contract.ai-scraping-prohibition | AI scraping, data mining, dataset construction and downstream distribution of Website Content are prohibited without express permission, including where content reaches an AI operator via a third-party scraper (Section 7, Prohibition on AI Scraping and Data Mining) | designed | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalrule_packs: kye:rule-pack:action-admissibilityconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
mow-search-only-contract.database-rights | Systematic extraction or re-utilisation of substantial parts of the Website's content database is restricted independently of copyright, and archive/crawl-corpus inclusion (e.g. Common Crawl, Internet Archive) requires an express written agreement (Section 8, Database Rights Protection) | designed | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalrule_packs: kye:rule-pack:action-admissibilityconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
mow-search-only-contract.legal-formation-and-enforcement | Contract formation by conduct (access after notice), incorporation into website terms, county-court/Money Claim Online debt recovery, aggregation of claims, and intermediary/blocking remedies are legal mechanisms operated by the publisher and its counsel | out-of-scope | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
mow-search-only-contract.accessibility-carveout | Assistive technologies and user-facing accessibility tools (screen readers, text-to-speech) remain permitted; the contract targets bulk reuse and secondary exploitation, never individual non-commercial access (Section 4.1.1) | designed | audit_events: kye.purpose.request.v1, kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.compliance.attestation.v1engines: internalrule_packs: kye:rule-pack:action-admissibilityconstitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md |
Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: KYE Protocol™.