A few months ago, when we launched the first version of the Notice, we promised you a way to protect your texts in the age of AI.

AI does not ask authors for permission. So we turned permission the right way round.

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On Panodyssey, you are the one who grants it

Since the spring, every long-form publication in a Creative Room can carry a Notice: your choice, readable by artificial intelligences, on how your texts may be used to train their models.

Version 2.1 does not change this mechanism. It changes the way it is expressed, by stating clearly whether the AI has to pay or not to use your text.

You decide.

Three choices, three consequences

With Notice v2.1, you still have three possible choices:

1. All AIs: you freely allow training, with no financial compensation.
2. Do not allow AI: your texts are not used to train any AI.
3. Choose your AIs: only the AIs you select can train on your texts, and only in exchange for compensation.

The difference between the first and the third choice is simple: one is a gift, the other a licence.

What you gain today by using the Panodyssey AI Notice

(1) Control

You decide, publication by publication. Not the AI.

(2) Proof

Your choice is dated, recorded and displayed on every page, in a format machines can read. If an AI ignores it, it uses your text despite your clearly expressed refusal.

This is the basis for a claim, because your choice is public, visible to everyone, humans and machines alike.

What the law says: The 2019 European Directive on copyright (Article 4), transposed in France as Article L. 122-5-3 of the Intellectual Property Code, allows text and data mining, which includes AI training, on content accessible online. This is an exception to copyright. But it no longer applies if the author has objected by "reserving" their rights in a machine-readable way. That is exactly what the Panodyssey AI Notice does. An AI that ignores it can therefore no longer rely on the exception: copying your text for training then requires your authorisation. Without it, the AI is exposed to an infringement action. The AI Act goes in the same direction: providers of general-purpose AI models must put in place a policy to respect these reservations. Only scientific research carried out by research organisations is exempt from this rule.

(3) Your visibility

Refusing training does not remove you from search engines. Your publications remain indexed and referenced. Saying no does not make you invisible.

(4) Your place in the negotiation

By selecting AIs, you join the corpus that Panodyssey offers under licence to artificial intelligence companies.

The larger this catalogue grows, well organised on Panodyssey, the more it interests AI companies, which need texts in many languages and on a wide range of topics.

And compensation?

An AI you have selected can only use your texts after signing an agreement with Panodyssey.

We are negotiating these agreements. When one of them is signed, a share of the sums paid will come back to you. You will be informed of each agreement: join the Panodyssey writers' workshops ("Ateliers des plumes") to learn more and take part in the decisions.

Music creators took years to learn it: the value of a work must be protected the moment it is first made available to the public online. A second later, it is already too late to worry about it. On social networks as everywhere else, you have to go out protected. Yesterday's pirates eventually signed licensing agreements. Panodyssey has no intention of waiting that long to put an end to the plundering of independent authors' texts.

We ask AI companies to respect the law. We give them the solution to do so cleanly, fairly and immediately. Sharing the value starts now.

Already activated your Notice? What changes for you

Did you select AIs before v2.1?

They will now have to pay, like the others. The compensation condition applies automatically to all choices already made. Your publications already tell the machines that read them.

This change works in your favour: it takes nothing away from what you had chosen, it adds a condition, and it applies to the future.

Would you rather allow training freely? Choose "All AIs". In any case, you can check or change your choice at any time from the Notice of each of your publications.

What's next...

AI assistants no longer just learn. They read your texts, summarise them, reuse them in their answers, and can thus divert your readers' attention for their sole benefit.

The next version of the Notice will give you broader and very precise control over these new uses, separately from training.

We encourage you to activate the Notice on all your publications.