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Working notes on data licensing for AI: how rights get checked, how an NDA-first process runs, and what data owners and AI teams can expect from each other. Written by the Liciva team as we go.

  1. 15 min read

    AI training data provenance: what to ask before you license a dataset

    AI training data provenance explained for AI teams: what to verify, the record you need for each link in the chain, and the questions to ask before you license a dataset.

  2. 15 min read

    EU AI Act training data requirements: what AI teams need from every data supplier

    The EU AI Act training data requirements, translated into the documents an AI team should get from a data supplier before signing: sources, rights, opt-outs, personal data.

  3. 14 min read

    How to license your company's data to AI companies

    How to license data to AI companies: the five-step order (NDA, sample, rights check, licence, delivery), what qualifies, what buyers ask for and what happens at term end.

  4. 17 min read

    Can you license employee emails and chat logs to AI companies?

    Sometimes, and only in layers. What it takes to license employee emails to AI companies lawfully: rights, personal data, old privacy notices, de-identification and the licence terms.

  5. 16 min read

    Is our data ours to license? What a rights check for AI training data covers

    A rights check for AI training data answers six questions before a licence is drafted: chain of title, third-party terms, personal data, restrictions, use limits, and deletion.