TDM rights reservation
Legal/technical flags that reserve text-and-data-mining rights. EU-flavored. Partial crawler support.
Counsel may want meta tags or headers. GEO should know if you opted out of training vs search.
Don’t opt out of everything and then ask why you vanished.
Examples
- A site reserves TDM, blocks GPTBot, allows SearchBot. A coherent policy. Rare.
Related terms
Proposed robots.txt-style directives for how crawled content may be used: search vs AI input vs training.
Deals where labs pay (or get blocked) for using professional content. Changes which domains appear in answers.
robots.txt is the fetch permission file at the site root. AI crawlers read it too. Misconfigure it and you vanish from training, search, or both.
FAQ
Is TDM the same as robots? +
No. Robots is fetch. TDM is a rights claim. Overlapping politics, different files.
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