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MCL Builder: interactive guide and document builder for CABI's Model Content Licence for AI
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| short_description: Understand and complete CABI's Model Content Licence for AI | |
| tags: | |
| - legal | |
| - licensing | |
| - agriculture | |
| - data-governance | |
| # Model Content Licence for AI — Builder | |
| An interactive guide and document builder for **CABI's Model Content Licence (MCL) for AI**, a free | |
| contract template that lets a content owner license material for AI model development and training while | |
| prohibiting reproduction of the original content for other purposes. | |
| The template itself is a 22-page Word document in which optional text, blanks and drafting instructions | |
| appear in red. That is clear to a lawyer working in track changes, and confusing to everyone else — several | |
| partners who received it could not tell whether it was a finished template or an internal draft. This app | |
| resolves that: it explains what the MCL is, walks through the decisions the template asks you to make, shows | |
| the resulting document updating live, and exports a clean, print-ready PDF with no instruction text. | |
| ## What it does | |
| - **Explains the MCL** — what it permits and prohibits, the four separately grantable rights | |
| (Technical, Training, Output, Display), and how the Special Terms, Annex 1 and General Terms fit together. | |
| - **Guides you through the blanks** — 13 sections covering all 11 rows of the Special Terms, Annex 1, and | |
| the five negotiated points inside the General Terms, with notes on what each choice commits you to. | |
| - **Flags consequences and conflicts** — for example, that granting Output Rights assigns the resulting | |
| outputs back to the Licensor under clause 14.2, or that granting audio-visual rights contradicts the | |
| default Part B carve-out. | |
| - **Exports a print-ready PDF** via the browser's print dialog. | |
| ## Privacy | |
| The app is entirely client-side. Everything you type — party names, fees, contact details — stays in your | |
| own browser's local storage and is never transmitted anywhere. There is no server, no analytics and no | |
| network request after the page loads. Use **Clear all answers** when working on a shared machine. | |
| ## This is not legal advice | |
| The MCL is a template and, in CABI's own words, "in no circumstances should this template be deemed | |
| prescriptive." Any document produced here is a draft. It must be reviewed by the parties' respective legal | |
| departments and, where needed, independent external counsel, before it is signed. | |
| ## Provenance | |
| The MCL was created by **CAB International (CABI)** with **Keystone Law**, under a project funded by the | |
| **Gates Foundation** and the **UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)**, examining the use of | |
| generative AI in agricultural advisory services. The original template is included in this Space as | |
| [`MCL-template-original.pdf`](MCL-template-original.pdf). | |
| This builder is a prototype developed for the **GAIA (GenAI for Agriculture)** project. | |
| All 43 definitions and all 34 General Terms clauses are transcribed from **CABI's current source | |
| document** (`MODEL CONTENT LICENCE AGREEMENT FOR AI - Special Terms and General Terms.docx`, base | |
| 2025-11-28), which supersedes the published Gates Open Research PDF. An automated check confirms the app | |
| text matches that source with exactly **one** deliberate divergence, listed below. | |
| CABI's fourteen **Drafting Notes** live as Word comments in that source. Word comments do not print, so | |
| they are absent from the published PDF even though the General Instructions refer to them. All fourteen | |
| are reproduced in the app beside the field each relates to, attributed to CABI. | |
| ### Differences from CABI's current source | |
| - **Clause 2.1, definition of *Purpose*** — the published wording reads as a single Purpose governing the | |
| whole agreement, while row 5 lets each right be granted on its own commercial terms. CABI's own drafting | |
| note for row 5 confirms the intent: "the Licensor must select one of those uses for each of the rights | |
| granted". The app defaults to an amended per-right definition and discloses it as an amendment in **row | |
| 11**; CABI's wording remains selectable, in which case row 11 reverts to "N/A". | |
| - **Definition of *Delivery Method*** — CABI's source cross-references "row 8" of the Special Terms, but | |
| Delivery Method is row 7, as the Special Terms table and clause 7.1 both confirm. The app keeps **row 7**; | |
| following row 8 would make the document contradict itself. | |
| ### Defects still present in CABI's source, reproduced as-is | |
| Clause 23.1.5 lists clauses 19 and 21 twice in the survival list; clause 23.2.1 refers to final reports | |
| "under clause 9" when the reporting obligation is clause 10; and clause 25 uses "Event of Force Majeure" | |
| against the defined term "Force Majeure Event". All are listed on the "What the MCL is" page. | |
| The broken cross-reference at clause 15.1 ("Subject to clause *Error! Reference source not found.*") that | |
| appeared in the published PDF has been **resolved by CABI** — the current source removes that opening | |
| altogether, and the app follows it. | |
| ## Running locally | |
| ```bash | |
| python3 -m http.server 8000 | |
| # then open http://localhost:8000 | |
| ``` | |
| No build step and no dependencies. | |