{
  "artifact": "White Noise Public Source-Rights and Corpus-Use Clearance Gate",
  "date": "2026-06-29",
  "public_route": "wn-source-rights-corpus-use-clearance-gate.html",
  "markdown_source": "white-noise-public-source-rights-corpus-use-clearance-gate.md",
  "prepared_from": "current public-site materials, source-rights register, dataset registry, public source-record queue, and local corpus-use evidence gaps only",
  "use_boundary": "This gate is a public board-readiness artifact only. It is not legal advice, not a copyright opinion, not a licensing agreement, not a full rights audit, not institutional publishing clearance, not dataset clearance, not model-training permission, and not proof that every White Noise asset has completed source-specific review.",
  "board_rule": "Do not publish warmer institutional clearance, complete licensing, model-training permission, dataset readiness, corpus reuse, marketplace, Exchange, syndication, attribution, or third-party rights language until source-specific rights and corpus-use records pass this gate and the public claim boundary is reviewed.",
  "current_status": "pending_source_evidence",
  "source_record_priority": 6,
  "companion_tools": [
    {
      "path": "tools/check_source_rights_corpus_use_clearance_gate.js",
      "purpose": "Validate that the public gate, source files, image provenance, source-rights register links, priority queue links, and manifest references preserve the source-rights and corpus-use clearance boundary."
    }
  ],
  "blocked_public_claims": [
    "institutional clearance",
    "complete licensing",
    "model-training permission",
    "dataset readiness",
    "commercial corpus reuse",
    "marketplace resale clearance",
    "institutional publishing approval",
    "third-party endorsement or source permission",
    "legally reviewed rights packet"
  ],
  "required_source_inputs": [
    {
      "field": "source_identity",
      "minimum": "Specific source, asset, collection, document, dataset, generated visual, third-party reference, curriculum unit, corpus segment, marketplace item, or Exchange-adjacent material retained privately with a cleared public source class.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not publish private file paths, contract details, third-party personal data, customer records, confidential source records, or uncleared source-owner identities."
    },
    {
      "field": "source_owner_or_rights_basis",
      "minimum": "Owner claim, license basis, company-authored basis, founder-originated basis, permission record, public-domain/third-party basis, generated-output provenance, or unknown state with review owner.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply legal ownership, clean chain of title, or third-party permission unless the underlying record supports it."
    },
    {
      "field": "permitted_use_channel",
      "minimum": "Allowed channels such as public site display, internal review, investor packet, sponsor review, curriculum, institutional publishing, model training, dataset export, API, licensing, syndication, marketplace, or Exchange use.",
      "public_boundary": "Public availability alone is not permission for training, export, redistribution, licensing, resale, institutional use, or third-party publishing."
    },
    {
      "field": "attribution_and_excerpt_rule",
      "minimum": "Attribution text, excerpt limits, modification rule, quotation rule, citation rule, generated-visual provenance rule, and channel-specific credit requirement.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not omit attribution obligations, imply unbounded excerpts, or use generated-visual provenance as broad rights clearance."
    },
    {
      "field": "model_training_and_corpus_restrictions",
      "minimum": "Allowed or blocked state for model training, embedding, retrieval, dataset registry, API output, corpus export, synthetic-data generation, and derivative-work reuse.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not claim model-training permission, corpus readiness, or dataset clearance unless source-specific records explicitly allow that channel."
    },
    {
      "field": "third_party_and_customer_permission",
      "minimum": "Named-party, logo, quote, testimonial, institution, sponsor, customer, partner, or outreach-reference permission state and authority/channel scope where applicable.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not turn third-party names, outreach targets, logos, or references into endorsement, affiliation, sponsor, partner, or customer-proof signals without written permission."
    },
    {
      "field": "marketplace_exchange_and_resale_boundary",
      "minimum": "Sale, resale, custody, creator compensation, asset provenance, marketplace listing, token, Exchange, and syndication use state and unresolved gaps.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply marketplace, Exchange, sale, custody, liquidity, creator-payout, or resale readiness from public site availability or concept materials."
    },
    {
      "field": "takedown_correction_and_review_route",
      "minimum": "Correction owner, takedown route, dispute route, revocation trigger, source-retention location, next review date, and event triggers.",
      "public_boundary": "Do not imply continuous legal monitoring, formal rights operations, or audited content controls unless separately source-backed."
    },
    {
      "field": "claim_boundary",
      "minimum": "Allowed public summary, blocked claim family, companion source records, unresolved gaps, stronger-use trigger, review date, reviewer role, and accepted or rejected public summary.",
      "public_boundary": "Every public source-rights or corpus-use statement must map to source class, evidence level, owner or rights basis, permitted channel, restrictions, unresolved gaps, and review trigger."
    }
  ],
  "acceptance_gates": [
    {
      "gate": "source_presence",
      "pass_condition": "Specific source identity or cleared source class, rights basis, permitted channel, attribution rule, corpus-use restrictions, third-party permission state where applicable, marketplace/resale boundary, takedown route, and claim boundary exist for the same dated review window.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_missing_source"
    },
    {
      "gate": "rights_basis_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Owner, license, permission, founder-originated, company-authored, public-domain, generated-output, or unknown state is explicit without overstating legal review or chain of title.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_rights_basis_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "permitted_channel_alignment",
      "pass_condition": "Each allowed channel is named separately and public availability is not treated as permission for training, export, licensing, redistribution, resale, or institutional use.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_permitted_channel_mismatch"
    },
    {
      "gate": "attribution_excerpt_review",
      "pass_condition": "Attribution, excerpt, modification, quotation, citation, generated-visual provenance, and channel-specific credit rules are recorded.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_attribution_excerpt_missing"
    },
    {
      "gate": "model_training_corpus_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Model training, embedding, retrieval, dataset export, API, corpus reuse, synthetic-data generation, and derivative-use states are accepted or blocked without implying broader clearance.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_model_training_corpus_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "third_party_permission_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Third-party, customer, sponsor, logo, quote, testimonial, institution, partner, outreach-reference, and named-evidence states are separated from endorsement or customer-proof claims.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_third_party_permission_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "marketplace_exchange_resale_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Sale, resale, custody, creator compensation, asset provenance, marketplace, token, Exchange, and syndication states are explicit and do not imply launch readiness.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_marketplace_exchange_resale_boundary"
    },
    {
      "gate": "takedown_correction_route",
      "pass_condition": "Correction owner, takedown route, dispute route, revocation trigger, source-retention location, next review date, and event triggers are recorded.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_takedown_correction_route_missing"
    },
    {
      "gate": "claim_boundary",
      "pass_condition": "Public summary maps each supported claim to source class, rights basis, permitted channel, restrictions, owner review, source window, unresolved gaps, stronger-use trigger, and accepted or rejected summary.",
      "fail_label": "rejected_claim_boundary"
    }
  ],
  "status_labels": [
    "pending_source_evidence",
    "ready_for_private_review",
    "rejected_needs_rework",
    "accepted_for_bounded_public_summary"
  ],
  "public_summary_allowed_when_accepted": [
    "dated review window",
    "cleared public source class",
    "rights basis category",
    "permitted use channel summary",
    "attribution and excerpt summary",
    "model-training and corpus-use restriction summary",
    "third-party permission state where relevant",
    "marketplace, Exchange, resale, and syndication boundary",
    "takedown or correction route",
    "unresolved gap summary",
    "next review trigger",
    "bounded claim boundary"
  ],
  "public_summary_disallowed": [
    "legal advice, legal conclusions, or legal-reviewed clearance unless formal review exists",
    "complete licensing, clean chain of title, or institutional publishing approval unless source-backed",
    "model-training permission, dataset readiness, corpus export, API reuse, or synthetic-data reuse unless explicitly permitted",
    "third-party endorsement, affiliation, sponsor, partner, customer proof, logo use, quote use, or testimonial use without written permission",
    "private contracts, license terms, personal data, customer records, confidential source records, or private source-owner details",
    "marketplace sale, resale, custody, liquidity, creator payout, Exchange, token, or syndication readiness without launch and rights records",
    "generated-image provenance as proof of broad commercial rights clearance",
    "audited content controls, continuous legal monitoring, or completed rights operations unless separately source-backed",
    "claims about speculative White Noise technologies being commercially deployed"
  ],
  "companion_controls": [
    "wn-source-rights-register.html",
    "white-noise-public-source-rights-provenance-baseline.md",
    "wn-ai-dataset-registry.html",
    "wn-generated-visual-disclosure-standard.html",
    "wn-customer-evidence-permission-standard.html",
    "wn-customer-evidence-permission-source-record-gate.html",
    "wn-source-record-priority-queue.html",
    "wn-source-record-acceptance-standard.html",
    "wn-dependency-register.html",
    "wn-risk-register.html",
    "wn-review-calendar.html"
  ],
  "image_asset": {
    "path": "assets/governance/white-noise-source-rights-corpus-use-clearance-gate-20260629.png",
    "provenance": "assets/governance/white-noise-source-rights-corpus-use-clearance-gate-20260629.provenance.json",
    "alt_text": "AI-generated White Noise source-rights and corpus-use clearance gate with abstract source cards, corpus blocks, license boundary markers, attribution checkpoints, model-training restriction gates, and takedown route indicators",
    "usage_boundary": "GPT-generated conceptual/editorial source-rights and corpus-use clearance image only; not proof of legal review, signed rights, complete licensing, institutional publishing clearance, dataset clearance, model-training permission, third-party permission, customer permission, marketplace readiness, Exchange readiness, audited content controls, formal financing process, live dataroom, operational speculative technology, trained W.N. image model, or web-scale source ingestion."
  }
}