TDM Reservation and Machine-Readable Licensing
Declaring copyright and permitted machine use in code, through reservation protocols, robot meta directives, or licensing marketplaces.
Analogy Mental model
A stamp on every article: come in and read, cite the source, and if you intend to feed the whole archive to a commercial model, use the other window and pay.
In practice What you actually do
Know the snippet directives, because they decide how much of your text may be quoted. Unlimited snippet length is what permits full featured answers and citations; restricting it or disabling snippets removes you from the formats that generate most of the value.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Audit the robots meta tag sitewide. The combination of index, follow, unlimited snippet, large image preview, and unlimited video preview is the configuration that grants maximum visibility in both conventional results and generated answers.
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