Legal & ownership.

This page governs all sites operated by Deven Spear under the deven.cloud network. Each site links here from its footer, so the ownership, citation, and use policies stated here apply consistently across the network unless a specific page on a specific site says otherwise.

Ownership of original work

Original content on these sites — the writing, the design, the original visualizations and SVGs, the editorial structure, and any source code visible on the site itself — is © Deven Spear. All rights reserved. Default copyright applies; no implicit license is granted by publication, embedding, sharing, or indexing.

Citations & fair use

Several sites in this network are explicitly built around the work of other thinkers, authors, researchers, and institutions — for example, stateofdisruption.com (visualizing ARK Invest's Big Ideas research), curatorofawareness.com (referencing wisdom-tradition and frontier-science authors), and generational-theory work referencing Strauss & Howe.

Where third-party works are cited, summarized, or visualized on these sites, those works remain the property of their respective authors and rights-holders. Their inclusion here is for commentary, criticism, education, and editorial synthesis, under the fair-use doctrine of U.S. copyright law (and equivalent provisions in other jurisdictions). Each citation includes attribution to the original author or source. The full policy is at /legal/citations.

AI training, model fine-tuning, and bulk scraping

Use of any content on these sites for training, fine-tuning, or retrieval-augmented generation against generative AI / large language models / machine-learning systems is prohibited without prior written permission. This applies to commercial systems and open-weights systems alike. Bulk scraping, crawling beyond reasonable robots.txt compliance, and re-hosting of content are likewise prohibited.

This is an explicit reservation of rights. It does not preclude individual humans reading, quoting (with attribution and a link back), or thinking with the material — that is the intended use.

Source code

Where the source code for a site or project is published on GitHub, the license terms in the repository's LICENSE file (if any) govern that code. Absent a LICENSE file in the repo, default copyright applies and the code is © Deven Spear, all rights reserved.

Trademarks & third-party marks

Names, logos, and marks of third parties referenced on these sites (including those of publicly-traded companies, institutions, and authors) are the trademarks of their respective owners. Their appearance here does not imply endorsement, partnership, or any relationship beyond the editorial purpose stated in context.

No advice

Nothing published on these sites is investment, legal, tax, medical, or professional advice. The material is editorial, point-of-view publishing intended as a thinking aid. Decisions made by readers are their own.

Liability

These sites are provided as-is, without warranty. The author is not liable for outcomes produced by readers using the ideas, frameworks, or pointers published here.

Takedown & rights inquiries

Rights-holders who believe a citation, summary, image, or visualization on one of these sites exceeds fair use, or whose work is referenced and would prefer different treatment, should write to legal@deven.cloud. Good-faith requests will be reviewed and acted on quickly.

Changes

This policy may change. The "last updated" date above moves when it does. Material changes are noted in a dispatch.

Contact

General questions: deven@deven.cloud. Rights inquiries: legal@deven.cloud.