Govern outward usage rights

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Preserve explicit use conditions without treating access or public visibility as permission for every form of reuse.
Meaningful outcome: An outward representation has an attributable, current rights policy covering applicable human and machine uses and any required conditions.
Boundaries — includes: viewing, reuse, redistribution, attribution, commercial use, crawling, indexing, agent use, model-training use, custom terms references, effective time, revision, and withdrawal.
Boundaries — excludes: granting access, controlling discoverability, publishing the representation, proving external compliance, and changing source ownership.
Terms and concepts: usage rights state permitted uses after access. They are distinct from technical access and from whether a representation can be discovered.

Actor: The owner or an explicitly delegated rights authority.
Command / intent: Establish, revise, or withdraw use conditions for an outward representation.
Current state: The representation, current rights state, intended audiences and machine actors, applicable terms, provenance, and authority can be determined.
Policies / invariants: Human and machine uses can differ; public availability does not imply open reuse or training permission; material expansions require sufficient authority; revisions retain effective time and prior terms; unsupported enforcement is not represented as guaranteed compliance.
Transition: Validate authority and policy consistency, bind a new rights state or withdrawal, and record its effective scope and provenance.
Result: A current rights declaration or reasoned rejection.
Events / effects: May change machine-readable metadata, delivery behavior, compliance checks, or owner review requirements without changing access or discoverability.
Unknowns: Universal rights vocabularies, legal interpretation, jurisdictional effects, and enforceability are not established.

Access to content must not be represented as permission to reuse, redistribute, or train on it.
Rights claims must distinguish declared intent from technically or legally enforced outcomes.

Express human viewing, human reuse, machine access, indexing, training, redistribution, attribution, and commercial-use terms separately when relevant.

Interoperable machine-readable rights standards and conflict resolution among embedded, linked, and platform terms require later profiles.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
Usage rights are separate from visibility, discovery, and access and may distinguish human, crawler, agent, and training uses.	rule/invariant	sourced	G05 and G07.