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The agreement grants users only a limited, personal, non-commercial license to access the site, prohibiting reproduction, commercial exploitation, framing, and use of hidden text incorporating Thomson Reuters marks without express written consent. Unauthorized use automatically terminates the license.
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This provision establishes the outer boundary of permissible use for all site visitors, including developers, researchers, competitors, and commercial partners, and states that unauthorized commercial use results in automatic license termination without further notice.
Under this clause, users are authorized only to access and make personal use of site content. Any commercial reproduction, resale, framing, or exploitation of site content requires separate written authorization from Thomson Reuters, and unauthorized use terminates access rights as stated in the agreement.
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"Thomson Reuters grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site, subject to the Terms. This site and any portion hereof may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, downloaded, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of Thomson Reuters. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout and form) of Thomson Reuters and/or its affiliates without the express written consent of Thomson Reuters. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Thomson Reuters' name or Marks without the express written consent of Thomson Reuters. Any unauthorized use terminates the license granted by Thomson Reuters.Excerpt from Thomson Reuters's Terms
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The commercial use prohibition and framing restriction are grounded in U.S. copyright law and trademark law, with the prohibition on unauthorized commercial use enforceable under the Copyright Act and the Lanham Act. The automatic termination clause for unauthorized use does not require prior notice, which is consistent with standard intellectual property licensing practice. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The prohibition on commercial exploitation is broad and may affect organizations that aggregate, republish, or commercially reference Thomson Reuters web content in research tools, compliance databases, or AI training workflows. The framing prohibition may affect developers integrating Thomson Reuters site content into third-party platforms or applications. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU-based users may have additional rights under the EU Database Directive or applicable copyright exceptions for text and data mining, which may interact with the commercial use prohibition depending on the nature of the use. UK users post-Brexit are subject to UK copyright exceptions, including those applicable to computational analysis. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Vendors, API integrators, and data aggregators that reference or incorporate Thomson Reuters web content should confirm whether their use falls within the personal license or requires a separate commercial license. Automated scraping, AI training data collection, and competitive intelligence workflows may fall outside the permitted personal use scope. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations with automated content monitoring, legal research aggregation, or AI training pipelines that access Thomson Reuters web pages should assess whether their use complies with the limited personal license or requires a separate written agreement with Thomson Reuters.
This provision establishes the outer boundary of permissible use for all site visitors, including developers, researchers, competitors, and commercial partners, and states that unauthorized commercial use results in automatic license termination without further notice.
Under this clause, users are authorized only to access and make personal use of site content. Any commercial reproduction, resale, framing, or exploitation of site content requires separate written authorization from Thomson Reuters, and unauthorized use terminates access rights as stated in the agreement.
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