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title: "MOW Search Only Terms Contract (SOC) — publisher content-access authority — KYE Protocol™ coverage"
description: "MOW Search Only Terms Contract (SOC) — publisher content-access authority coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that enforces it."
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/compliance/mow-search-only-contract/
lang: en
source: "KYE Protocol"
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> MOW Search Only Terms Contract (SOC) — publisher content-access authority coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that enforces it.

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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:action-admissibility` **constitution\_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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:action-admissibility` **constitution\_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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:action-admissibility` **constitution\_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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:action-admissibility` **constitution\_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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:action-admissibility` **constitution\_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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:action-admissibility` **constitution\_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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **constitution\_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.v1` **engines**: `internal` **rule\_packs**: `kye:rule-pack:action-admissibility` **constitution\_refs**: `constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md`, `constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md` |

Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: [KYE Protocol™](https://kyeprotocol.com/).