This is the License Desk of the United States Press Institute and the rate card of record for machine access to every publication of the estate. Citizens read free; machines pay. No human reader is ever metered, registered, or tracked to read these publications — the rates on this page bind machines alone.
Machine access rate — Schedule M-1 Revision C
| Per request | Editorial | Registry |
|---|---|---|
| Index | free | free |
| Retrieval | $0.02 | $0.06 |
| Agent | $0.05 | $0.15 |
| Training | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Unverified | $5.00 | $5.00 |
The registry surface is the civic record: the emergency plane and the ratified civic services taxonomy. The editorial surface is everything else this publication prints.
Training is priced at corpus parity — $50,000 over 1056 published pages, clamped to $0.25-$5.00 per request; an unverified taker is priced at the same rate.
Corpus license floor: $50,000/year.
Ratified — Curtis License
The open lane
Traditional search indexing is free and permanent: a crawler whose product returns the reader to the source is paid in the visit. That lane is entered by proving identity, never by asserting a user-agent string. Life-safety pages answer a human identically whether any meter stands raised or lowered.
The corpus license
An annual full-corpus license from $50,000 admits the licensed crawlers across the estate and ends the per-request meter for them. It is sold by invoice from this desk, never by self-serve checkout. An inquiry opens with the operator's legal name, the intended use, and the systems that consume the corpus. Training ingestion outside a corpus license is priced at corpus parity — $5.00 per request at the current published page count of 1056.
The desk
Write to [email protected]. A 402 refusal anywhere on the estate is the door to this desk, not the end of the road; quote the request identifier it carried.
Machine-readable surfaces
- /license.txt — the schedule in plain text
- /license.xml — the schedule as an RSL 1.0 license document
- /transparency — the Transparency Register of executed license instruments
Each publication's machine terms govern automated access to that publication and are published at /terms/machine on the publication. Where a surface disagrees with a publication's machine terms, the terms govern.