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is there (yet) a standard, simple license header that prohibits machine learning?

No It’s quite likely there never will be. It is an open question whether copying for the purpose of training an AI model is fair use. If it is, than any prohibition by the copyright holder will be of ...
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Can one grant a license for something that is not copyrighted?

No In common law jurisdictions, a licence is just a contract and requires consideration by both parties to be valid. In a typical licence arrangement, the licensor’s consideration is to allow the use, ...
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Can one grant a license for something that is not copyrighted?

Is it possible for someone to license something that is not copyrightable (e.g. too trivial, or no creative work) Probably not. A license for a copyright-protected work is permission to do something ...
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Can I publish my invention online under a license?

You could attempt to protect your design by copyright. The physical layout of a circuit board is protected by copyright but, given a schematic, a new layout that does not violate copyright can be ...
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Can I sneak around my copyleft obligations with adhesion contracts?

Quoting from the wikipedia article on the GPL: The GPL additionally states that a distributor may not impose "further restrictions on the rights granted by the GPL". This forbids activities ...
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Legality of AI vocals from royalty-free music

The contemplated use is probably not "fair use" which can be done notwithstanding the copyright in the samples. But the license appears to allow for derivative works, so it should be ...
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Can one grant a license for something that is not copyrighted?

Nevertheless, companies and many people who create derivatives put licenses on their weights, claiming that downloaders must respect the license to use the weights. This is subtly different from the ...
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Can I sneak around my copyleft obligations with adhesion contracts?

I am not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt. However, it is fairly obvious by downloading source code which includes the GPL or other license you agreed to abide by the terms of that ...
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Can I publish my invention online under a license?

I think you misunderstand how a license works. A license does not forbid any action - it fundamentally can't. But licenses can permit specific things that are otherwise forbidden by law. This is why ...
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Can I impose licensing terms on the content that users create or transmit using my program?

Facebook ToS 2015-18 The Terms of Service of Facebook back in 2015 to 2018 containted language that automatically granted every user of Facebook a license to use the content of other uses that was ...
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Can I send someone an email that they are not licensed to download or copy?

Yes, you could do that But it wouldn’t work Almost everything you are trying to prohibit would almost certainly qualify as fair use, and doesn’t need a licence: The purpose and character of the ...
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