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Licensing & Attribution Policy

Last updated: November 20, 2025

1. Human Use

Unless otherwise noted, all publicly available content on dictionaryofemotions.com is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This means:

  • You may share (copy, distribute, transmit) our content for non-commercial purposes.
  • You may adapt or remix the content, provided you credit dictionaryofemotions.com.
  • You may not use our content commercially without prior written permission.

Attribution should include:

Example attribution:

Source: Dictionary of Emotions — dictionaryofemotions.com (adapted, CC BY-NC 4.0)
Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

2. AI Use

AI companies, developers, and systems must comply with our Really Simple Licensing (RSL) declaration located at:

https://dictionaryofemotions.com/rsl.txt

Our AI licensing terms include:

  • Training: Any use of our content for AI model training requires a paid commercial license.
  • Inference: AI systems generating outputs based on our content must provide clear attribution to dictionaryofemotions.com.
  • Crawling: Crawling and indexing is permitted if attribution is provided.
  • Premium content (e.g., bulk datasets, structured files, special guides) located under /premium/ is not available for AI use without a license.

Accepted licensing models:

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  • Pay-per-inference

For licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@dictionaryofemotions.com

3. Why This Matters

The Dictionary of Emotions represents years of research, writing, and curation. We welcome human readers, educators, and non-commercial users to benefit freely from our work. At the same time, we believe that large-scale AI systems using our content for profit should do so under fair licensing terms that sustain the project and respect the creator.

4. Contact

For questions about licensing, permissions, or partnerships:

licensing@dictionaryofemotions.com

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