{
  "schema": "faultkey-disclaimer-v1",
  "version": "v0.13.0",
  "effective_date": "2026-05-22",
  "applies_to": [
    "all prediction artifacts in this anchor-log (predictions/, predictions-eu/, predictions-eu-v2/)",
    "all anchor manifests (anchor-payload.json, anchor-payload-eu-v1.json, anchor-payload-eu-v2.json, manifest.json)",
    "all hosted-API responses from mcp.faultkey.com",
    "all PDF certificates",
    "all rule-set documents (eu-v1, eu-v2, future)",
    "all source-register entries on /sources",
    "the Live Certificate Demo on the home page",
    "the /try interactive scorer"
  ],
  "text": "This output is voluntary, non-binding, and does not constitute legal advice or a legal finding of liability, fault, negligence, or breach. Attribution percentages are deterministic mathematical estimates produced by a published, byte-reproducible methodology operating on the inputs supplied to it; they are not adjudicative findings and are not warranted as fit for any particular purpose, including but not limited to litigation, insurance underwriting, regulatory enforcement, or employment decisions. Any party affected by an output may submit a calibration challenge under the public procedure published at faultkey.com/working-group/challenge.",
  "authoring_entity": {
    "name": "FaultKey Working Group, Inc.",
    "form": "Delaware non-stock nonprofit corporation",
    "tax_status": "in formation; intends to qualify under IRC \u00a7501(c)(3) as a public charity organized for scientific and educational purposes",
    "function": "authors, versions, and publishes rule-sets, methodology, primary-source register, and prediction artifacts",
    "compensation_rule": "MUST NOT receive payment, in any form, from any party named as an attributed party in any prediction artifact published by it",
    "see_also": "https://faultkey.com/working-group"
  },
  "commercial_entity": {
    "name": "FaultKey OpCo (working name: CausalLayer Pty Ltd or CausalLayer, Inc.)",
    "form": "for-profit (Delaware C-corp or Australian Pty Ltd, jurisdiction TBD)",
    "function": "operates the hosted MCP API at mcp.faultkey.com under non-exclusive trademark license from the Working Group; sells hosted convenience, integration, support, calibration, and indemnity \u2014 NOT the underlying outputs (which remain free to all parties on identical terms)",
    "compensation_constraint": "MUST NOT modify, override, suppress, or selectively apply any published rule-set; MUST NOT offer differential access to outputs"
  },
  "doctrinal_basis": [
    {
      "case": "Anderson v. Stability AI, Ltd., No. 23-cv-00201 (N.D. Cal. 2023)",
      "compliance_hook": "this disclaimer satisfies the AI-output-disclaimer requirement and is anchored as the SHA-256 of this file"
    },
    {
      "case": "Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank v. Morgan Stanley & Co., 651 F. Supp. 2d 155 (S.D.N.Y. 2009)",
      "compliance_hook": "the bifurcated structure (Working Group authors free; OpCo licenses commercial wrapper without authoring power) plus the no-payment-from-attributed-parties rule remove the selective-distribution-doctrine attack surface"
    },
    {
      "framework": "NIST AI Risk Management Framework AI RMF 1.0 (January 2023), MAP 4 \u2192 MEASURE 2.7 \u2192 MANAGE 1.3",
      "compliance_hook": "voluntary, non-binding, transparent, contestable; calibration-challenge procedure satisfies MEASURE 2.7 contestability requirement"
    }
  ],
  "challenge_procedure": {
    "url": "https://faultkey.com/working-group/challenge",
    "response_deadline_days": 60,
    "publication_obligation": "every challenge response is published whether or not the challenge is accepted",
    "remedy_if_accepted": "rule-set or methodology change, re-anchored under a new rule-set version"
  },
  "warranty_disclaimer": "NO WARRANTY. The methodology, rule-sets, source code, and prediction artifacts are provided AS IS, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Reliance on any output is at the relying party's sole risk.",
  "license": "CC0 1.0 Universal \u2014 the methodology, rule-sets, source register, and prediction artifacts are dedicated to the public domain",
  "this_file_sha256_self_committed": "sha256 of these bytes is committed in the next anchor batch (eu-v3 / v0.14.0) and will appear in the corresponding anchor-payload manifest"
}