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What licensing questions should a reseller resolve before building a catalogue?

Resellers should distinguish redistribution of generated records from hosted access, derived products and evaluation services when defining the intended commercial scope.

Start by describing how downstream customers will receive and use the generated material. Downloadable records, access through a hosted environment and reports produced by an evaluation service are different distribution models. A reseller should ask which proposed uses the licence would cover rather than assume that one permission covers all three.

Also identify planned transformations. These could include translating task text, combining packs, adding labels or creating customer-specific subsets. Ask how the intended licence would treat those derivatives and whether generated policies or evaluator components require separate treatment.

The scope discussion should include customer access to raw material, onward redistribution and use in model training. These are questions to resolve, not permissions to infer from a sample download or a public description.

A useful first step is a short distribution map showing the proposed product, delivery channel, transformations and end-customer uses. MirrorFirm could use that map to scope a generated offering. No particular commercial rights, exclusivity or service commitments should be advertised until they are established for the proposed arrangement.

Turn a broad resale request into a clear description of the customer uses that need to be covered.

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Licensed resellers
Content type:
Explanation
Buyer question:
Scope and getting started

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