Copyright, IP & Usage Policy

1. Ownership & Rights Reserved

All content made available at veritect.ai and its subdomains — including articles, case analyses, practice guides, playbooks, regulatory explainers, weekly trackers, news digests, glossary entries, AI-generated summaries, citations, visualisations, software, design, logos, trademarks, and underlying databases — is owned by or licensed to Veritect Pte. Ltd. (UEN: 202518753N), Singapore ("Veritect"), and is protected under the Copyright Act, 1957 (India); the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (UK); Title 17 of the United States Code; the Copyright Act (Cap. 63, Singapore); and applicable international treaties including the Berne Convention, TRIPS, and WIPO Copyright Treaty.

Court judgment text, statutory text, and regulator-issued circulars reproduced on the Platform are sourced from the public record and remain in the public domain. Veritect claims copyright only over its original analytical work product: practitioner guides, editorial summaries, ratio decidendi analysis, pillar classification, statutes-cited mapping, related-case graphs, filter indexes, site structure, and software.

2. Permitted Use

You may, without prior written permission:

• Access, read, and view the Platform on a device you control, for personal, academic, or professional research.
• Print or save individual pages for offline personal reference.
• Quote excerpts of up to 150 words from an individual article, provided you (a) attribute the quote to "Veritect Legal Intelligence" or "Veritect.ai", (b) include a direct link back to the source URL on veritect.ai, and (c) do not alter the quoted text.
• Share article URLs on social media, email, messaging platforms, or within internal law-firm knowledge bases.
• Cite articles in court pleadings, legal memoranda, academic papers, and research publications in the ordinary course of legal practice.
• Allow retrieval-only AI agents (ChatGPT Browse, Claude-Web, Perplexity retrieval, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot) to fetch and cite content on a per-query basis, provided the agent surfaces a visible citation and link back to the source page.

3. Prohibited Use

You may not, without a written licence from Veritect:

• Scrape, spider, crawl, or bulk-download content programmatically. Rate-limited page-by-page browsing is not bulk extraction; operating an automated agent that fetches more than 50 article pages per 24-hour period from a single IP, autonomous system, or identifiable operator is.
• Reproduce, republish, mirror, repackage, or redistribute articles, case analyses, or datasets — in whole or in part — on another website, application, platform, newsletter, aggregator, or API, whether gratis or for a fee.
• Use Platform content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, or retrieval-augment any AI/ML model, including but not limited to large language models, foundation models, embedding models, vision-language models, classification models, and domain-specific legal models. This prohibition applies to training datasets, pre-training corpora, instruction-tuning sets, RAG corpora used at scale, reinforcement-learning reward data, and synthetic-data generation inputs.
• Frame, embed in an <iframe>, or otherwise display Platform content within another web property in a manner that removes Veritect branding or bypasses the source URL.
• Remove, obscure, or modify copyright notices, attribution strings, author credits, citation metadata, or the Veritect "About" / canonical-CTA block on any reproduced content.
• Use Platform content to build a competing legal-research, legal-news, or legal-content product.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the filter indexes, ranking algorithms, or editorial classifications used by the Platform.
• Use any trademark, logo, or trade dress of Veritect (including the "Veritect" wordmark, gold-V device, and "Veritect Legal Intelligence" attribution) in any manner likely to cause confusion or imply endorsement.

4. Text-and-Data Mining (TDM) Reservation

Veritect expressly reserves all rights in respect of text-and-data mining of content hosted at veritect.ai and its subdomains, within the meaning of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790; Section 29A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (UK); Section 44B of the Copyright Act, 1957 (India) to the extent applicable; and any analogous provision in any jurisdiction.

This reservation is declared in a machine-readable form through four independent channels. Operators of automated crawlers, AI model developers, and dataset compilers are responsible for reading and respecting at least one of these channels before ingesting content:

1. Content-Usage: tdm-reservation=1; tdm-policy=https://veritect.ai/copyright response header on every HTML response.
2. https://veritect.ai/ai.txt declaration in the spawning.ai format.
3. https://veritect.ai/robots.txt explicit Disallow: / directives for training-scope crawlers (GPTBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent, Applebot-Extended, Cohere-AI, Diffbot, and others).
4. Per-page <meta name="robots" content="noai, noimageai"> on every HTML page served.

Where any jurisdiction's law permits ignoring a TDM reservation solely because it is not machine-readable, Veritect contends that the combined effect of the four channels above — any of which is independently sufficient — constitutes effective machine-readable reservation. Absence of any one channel does not waive the reservation.

5. India-Specific Provisions

Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957 permits "fair dealing" for private or personal use, research, criticism or review, and reporting of current events — but does not permit commercial reproduction, systematic extraction of substantial portions, or compilation of derivative databases. Section 52(1)(a)(i) fair-dealing does not extend to dataset compilation for AI training; such use constitutes infringement under Section 51 read with Section 14.

Information made available through the Platform that constitutes a "database" within the meaning of the Copyright Act, 1957 and the Information Technology Act, 2000 is protected as an original literary work under Section 13(1)(a). Unauthorized extraction substantially depreciates the value of the compilation and will be pursued under Section 55 (civil remedies) and Section 63 (criminal penalties — imprisonment up to three years and fine up to two lakh rupees per offence).

6. DMCA & Takedown Procedure

If you believe that content on the Platform infringes your copyright, submit a notice containing (i) a physical or electronic signature of the rights holder or authorised agent; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (iii) the URL of the allegedly infringing material on veritect.ai; (iv) your contact details; (v) a good-faith statement that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, agent, or law; and (vi) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and you are authorised to act on the rights holder's behalf. Send to info@veritect.ai with the subject line "DMCA Notice".

Conversely, if you believe Veritect content has been reproduced elsewhere in breach of this policy — particularly in any AI training corpus, dataset, or scraping aggregator — notify us at the same address with the subject line "Infringement Notice" and include the URL or dataset identifier. We will investigate and, where appropriate, pursue formal takedown, CDMCA counter-notice, or legal remedy.

7. Licensing & Commercial Use

Commercial licensing — including syndication of article feeds, white-label content, enterprise corpus access, AI-training licences, and API integration — is available on written agreement. Enterprise and academic-research partnerships are considered individually. Contact info@veritect.ai with the subject line "Licensing Inquiry" to begin a discussion.

8. Enforcement

Breach of this policy may result in (i) revocation of access to the Platform, (ii) IP-level or autonomous-system-level blocking, (iii) written notice to the breaching party's hosting provider, registrar, and — where applicable — app-store, (iv) civil proceedings for injunction, damages and account of profits, and (v) criminal complaint under Section 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957 or analogous provision. Veritect reserves the right to preserve evidence of breach and cooperate with law-enforcement investigations.

This policy is governed by the laws of Singapore, without reference to conflict-of-laws principles. Disputes shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore, save that Veritect retains the right to seek injunctive relief in any jurisdiction where infringement occurs.

9. Changes to this Policy

Veritect may update this Copyright, IP & Usage Policy from time to time. Material changes will be signalled via the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the Platform after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

10. Contact

Veritect Pte. Ltd.
160 Robinson Road #14-04, Singapore Business Federation Center, Singapore 068914
Email: info@veritect.ai