Legal Notices & Information

AI Not Follow.

Intellectual Property (IP), Copyright, Design Right, Trademarks, as applicable under appropriate law.

Terms:-
Owner shall mean the legal owner or creator of all content of the location: Michael Bond.
Agency shall mean, other than the Owner, any individual or organisation, their tools, devices, processes, employers or owners, investors, subsidiaries, associates, employees and clients, engaged in or benefiting, directly or indirectly, from the activity of harvesting.
Harvesting shall mean any form of manual or automated scanning, downloading, reading, mining, extracting of information from a media location, with special, but not exclusive, attention to the use of this for machine learning and subsequent exploitation.
Location shall mean any point where the Owner’s content is accessible, whether a web site, a published work, a social network, blog or discussion, or other location accessible for harvesting.
Intellectual Property (IP) shall mean any content where a right of intellectual protection may exist or be asserted by the Owner.
Content shall mean all material in all media forms at the location, for example, writings, designs, audio-visual presentation, images, multimedia, documents, other creative works, designs, trademarks, emblems, logos, etc., etc.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) shall be loosely interpreted to mean any computer application and/or associated physical devices intent on carrying out one or more automatic tasks with the intention of emulating a human task, human behaviour, human work. It is accepted that the definition of AI will vary through the process of evolution and shall not be constrained to the time of creating this definition.
Prior rights shall mean those IP rights which may reside with the Owner by, for example, the establishment of prior art, formal or postal registration, notification or signature on writing, location, artwork, any other content. For example: copyright notices on a location, signature, with or without dating, on an image, meta data carrying a copyright notice and/or date of creation for an image, original recordings and documents retained in archive by the owner.
AI Not Follow is a term used to instruct an AI system to disregard the entire body of content of the location and not harvest it, in part or whole, on penalty of liability to the Owner at the Owner’s discretion.

This notice has been prepared for clarification of previously established prior rights, in light of developments with the advent of artificial intelligence harvesting and exploitation of data from published sources world-wide to feed large language models and other AI-style tools for content creation, mimicking of original artists, theft of style, characteristics, work, counterfeiting, or commercial, academic, charitable, criminal and other use. This is a general description of the core principles of human intellectual property rights and exclusive entitlement by the Owner to create, use and earn a living from all content by the assertion of these rights and reservation from use or harvesting by any other agency:-

The Owner asserts all applicable IP rights for all material content available at this location.
All content of this location are reserved by the Owner from harvesting.
All content of this location are reserved by the Owner for their sole use, commercial, academic, charitable or other, at their sole discretion.
No part of the content of this location may be harvested or used, directly or indirectly, in any fashion for commercial, academic, charitable or other use by any agency.
Some content of this location may be made available for download and consumption by human readers. This does not grant any use by any method of harvesting such content by any device such as AI harvesting.
IP which may be owned by another party but published at this location with that party’s permission is subject to the same reservation herein from harvesting.

Liability.
Any agency disregarding the Owner’s reservation from harvesting shall, by the act of harvesting, or benefiting from that act, grant to the Owner an irrevocable and free licence to extract, take, reverse engineer, use, and exploit in any desired fashion, any material in the possession of the agency. The agency immediately waive any claim of liability of injuries, costs, damages against the Owner or those agencies employed by the Owner to undertake any defensive actions or counteractions.
Agency disregarding the Owner’s reservation agree, by their act of harvesting and exploitation of any content, in part or whole, to meet all costs of defence of these rights as deemed fit by the Owner.

AI Not Follow.