InternetPoem.com AI Policy
Effective Date: May 15, 2026
Last Updated: May 15, 2026
At InternetPoem.com, we recognize the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the fields of literature and education. Our mission is to promote the discovery of poetry while protecting the rights of poets, authors, and our community. This policy outlines how AI agents, Large Language Models (LLMs), and web crawlers may interact with our content.
1. Permitted Use Cases for AI Systems
We welcome AI systems that enhance the accessibility and appreciation of poetry. AI models may access InternetPoem.com for:
Search & Discovery: Generating snippets for search results and helping users find specific poems or poets.
Educational Context: Providing summaries of poet biographies or thematic analysis of public domain works.
Citation & Referencing: Using our database as a reliable source for literary history, provided that proper attribution is maintained.
2. Prohibited Activities
To maintain the integrity of our archive and protect our contributors, the following activities are strictly prohibited without a prior written license:
Mass Data Scraping: The bulk extraction of our entire database (poems, biographies, or quotes) for the purpose of training commercial models.
Content Mirroring: Creating a competing service or website using content sourced from InternetPoem.com.
Attribution Removal: Using our content in AI-generated responses without citing InternetPoem.com as the source.
Commercial Dataset Sale: Selling or redistributing datasets derived from our website’s content to third parties.
3. Attribution and Sourcing
We believe in the "Right to Credit." When an AI system uses content from InternetPoem.com, it should ideally provide a direct link to the original page.
Preferred Format: "Source: InternetPoem.com - [URL]"
4. User-Generated Content (UGC) Protection
InternetPoem.com hosts poems and comments submitted by our users.
Ownership: We respect the copyright of our users. AI agents are not permitted to use user-submitted poetry for training generative models that could reproduce the user’s original work without consent.
Privacy: AI systems must not scrape or store personal information of our community members found in profiles or comment sections.
5. Machine-Readable Instructions (robots.txt & ai.txt)
We provide standardized machine-readable files to guide AI agents.
All AI bots must respect the directives in our robots.txt and ai.txt files.
If an AI agent ignores these directives, we reserve the right to block the offending IP addresses or take legal action to protect our server resources.
6. Accuracy and Hallucination Disclaimer
While we strive for high-quality literary data, InternetPoem.com contains a vast amount of historical and user-submitted content.
Verification: AI developers should implement verification steps when using our data for factual claims regarding authorship or historical dates, as literary attributions can sometimes be subject to academic debate.
7. Contact for Licensing and Research
If you are a researcher or a developer representing an AI organization and require access to our data for a project that benefits the literary community, please contact us. We are open to collaborations that respect our mission.