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Terms of use

These terms apply when you register a work with, or use, the ATI Registry (“the registry”).

1. What the registry is

The registry publishes self-declared statements about how AI was or was not used in books. It is not a certification, audit or endorsement, and it does not verify declarations.

2. Cost and eligibility

Registration is free. You may register a work only if you are its author or publisher, or have the authority of its author or publisher to make the declaration, and you state which of these you are. The registry does not verify this, or that the named author agrees with the declaration. You must give an email address that you control; it is used to confirm your registration and to let you manage the record, and it is not published.

3. Your declaration

You are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of your declaration. You must not make a false or misleading declaration, impersonate another person or organisation, register a work you have no right to declare for, or include personal information about others. By submitting, you confirm the four statements shown in the form, including that you have checked that the terms of each AI tool you list permit use of its output in your publication.

4. Licences

The record data you submit (everything except your email address) is published publicly. You grant the registry a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to publish it, and you agree that the registry may at any time release its records, in whole or in part, as open data dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Until it does, the registry may limit how much of the registry can be retrieved, to protect it from automated copying. The registry’s definitions and marks are licensed under CC BY 4.0. The registry’s code is licensed under the MIT licence.

5. Using the marks

By registering, you agree to display a label only for a work you have registered and declared accurately, to keep its wording as published, and not to suggest that the registry certified, endorses or verified your work. These are conditions of registering. The marks are also licensed under CC BY 4.0, which does not restrict how they are used beyond requiring credit, so for anyone else the marks page states requests rather than licence terms; misuse can be reported (see Disputes). The registry may adopt a separate trademark policy when it is formally set up.

6. Our rights

The registry may annotate a record, mark it disputed, correct it, withdraw it (at the registrant’s request, or after a maintainer’s review), or remove it if it is inaccurate, abusive, infringing, an impersonation, or the subject of a legal request. Removing a record takes its content off the site and out of lookup, leaving only its ID, status and dates. Identifiers are never reused. Because records are public, copies made by others, and any open-data release made before a removal, may continue to exist, and the registry cannot recall them. See Disputes.

7. Acceptable use and your private link

You must not register in bulk or by automated means, try to copy the registry by automated means, interfere with the site, or use the marks or the registry to imply certification. The private link you receive on registering lets anyone who holds it withdraw or correct that record, so keep it private; if you lose it, you can ask for a new one by email, which stops the old one working.

8. No warranty, no legal advice

The registry is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind. It gives no legal advice, including on copyright, ownership or the terms of AI tools. To the extent permitted by law, the operators are not liable for losses arising from use of, or reliance on, the registry or any record.

9. Governing law

Governing law and venue will be set when the registry is formally incorporated.

10. Changes

Material changes to these terms will be announced on the site before they take effect.