References & provenance
The research, statutes, standards, and case law behind AIScrapeSafe’s rules. Every verdict records the rule sets it used; these are the sources those rules rest on, so you can see why a verdict says what it says.
Federal copyright statute and the public-domain baseline.
EU and other national TDM exceptions and copyright rules.
Creative Commons, TDMRep, and other machine-readable schemes.
Court decisions that shape scraping and TDM rights.
Government and regulator action on AI, ChatGPT, and copyright.
Where states publish open data and their terms.
State attorney-general guidance and public-records / FOIA law.
State statutes and codes behind the public-domain appendix.
Whitepapers and scholarship the rules draw on.
Explainers and context on scraping and copyright.
AIScrapeSafe verdicts reflect detected signals and these published sources — not legal advice.