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Publication Rights Clause

NIKOLAI proposal: a Publication Rights Clause is the contractual or policy term(s) governing what an external evaluator may publish about a review -- who may redact content, and whether the developer retains editorial control or approval rights over the evaluator's findings. NIKOLAI proposes recording it as a structured attribute of an External Review or Evaluator Access Attestation record; this is NIKOLAI's own editorial framing, not a term any source uses as a record field.

This is CASRAI's own proposed definition, not a definition any named organisation has agreed to. See what NIKOLAI is and is not.

Source of record

Where this definition comes from

  • Amodei, "We Must Pace the Frontier" / Anthropic Advanced AI Framework, AAF p.8

    Evaluators may publish key findings on risk levels, incidents, practices and access received or not received 'without editorial control by Anthropic.' AAF: evaluators are 'bound by obligations not to copy, retain, or disclose confidential information ..., but beyond that should generally not be restricted in what they can publish, including concerns about the risk report or the developer's conduct in connection with the review process.'

    https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
  • EU GPAI Code of Practice, Safety and Security Chapter, Measure 3.5; Commitment 7/Measure 7.4

    Signatories will not take any legal or technical retaliation against the independent external evaluators as a consequence of their testing and/or publication of findings ... the Signatory's 'publicly available procedure for responsible vulnerability disclosure ... will specify at least that the Signatory cannot delay or block publication for more than 30 business days from the date that the Signatory is made aware of the findings, unless a longer timeline is exceptionally necessary.'

    https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/118119

Crosswalk

How named organisations use this concept

Every row below is a shadow mapping. A shadow row is CASRAI's own reading of a published document. No lab, evaluator or regulator named on a shadow row has declared, endorsed, or been consulted on it. That changes only when an organisation files its own Mapping Declaration.
OrganisationTheir term, as publishedMatch & verificationSource
AnthropicShadow mapping
Amodei "We Must Pace the Frontier" / Advanced AI Framework
Evaluators may publish key findings on risk levels, incidents, practices and access received or not received "without editorial control by Anthropic." AAF: evaluators are "bound by obligations not to copy, retain, or disclose confidential information ..., but beyond that should generally not be restricted in what they can publish, including concerns about the risk report or the developer's conduct in connection with the review process." (p.8)
Also cites {AAF}.
exactEQ
confidence: high
We Must Pace the Frontier (Amodei essay)
EUShadow mapping
EU GPAI Code of Practice, Safety and Security Chapter
Measure 3.5 (post-market monitoring): Signatories "will not take any legal or technical retaliation against the independent external evaluators as a consequence of their testing and/or publication of findings" as long as the evaluator meets five conditions, including adherence to "the Signatory's publicly available procedure for responsible vulnerability disclosure, which will specify at least that the Signatory cannot delay or block publication for more than 30 business days from the date that the Signatory is made aware of the findings, unless a longer timeline is exceptionally necessary." Commitment 7/Measure 7.4: evaluators "maintain control over the publication of their findings, without implicit endorsement by the Signatories of the content of such reports."exactEQ
confidence: high
EU GPAI Code of Practice, Safety and Security Chapter
METRShadow mapping
METR (site) / OpenAI-Hugging Face incident investigation
"Publish all research and risk assessments 'where possible'"; Frontier Risk Report: "participants gave written approval for the final text of these appendices."closeCL
confidence: medium
METR
AI Evaluator Forum (AEF-1, discovery sweep)Shadow mapping
Discovery sweep
AEF-1 sub-elements "editorial control", "disclosure rights", "no contingent release", "timely disclosure" (discovery).
Unverified discovery-stage material.
closeUV
confidence: low
AI Evaluator Forum (AEF-1) discovery sweep
What do these codes mean?
exact
The source term is equivalent to this element
close
The source term is close but not equivalent to this element
broad
The source term is broader than this element
narrow
The source term is narrower than this element
none
No mapping claim — used for false-friend and declared-but-undefined rows
EQ
Equivalent
CL
Close
BR
Source is broader than the element
NR
Source is narrower than the element
FF
False friend — same or similar label, different meaning
DU
Declared but undefined by the source
UV
Unverified

Related, not mapped

Pointers that are not crosswalk claims

These sources mention this concept but do not define or map it clearly enough to count as a crosswalk row — noted here so the research is visible without overstating it as a mapping.

Gap

*Note added on revision (source document):* the EU chapter's Measure 3.5 safe-harbour/non-retaliation clause, with its numbered evaluator conditions and a 30-business-day disclosure-delay ceiling, is the single most concrete publication-rights text found anywhere in this corpus -- more concrete than Amodei's essay or Anthropic's Advanced AI Framework, neither of which gives a numeric disclosure clock. Separately, the Frontier Model Forum's Third-Party Assessments report is noted as explicitly setting out no publication-rights regime at all, an informative absence rather than a mapping.

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