# AUGMANITAI Disclaimer V6 — §1–§40 (Bilingual EN/DE)

**Canonical version:** 2026-05-27
**Applies to:** all content in this repository and to all sister-repositories of the AUGMANITAI Research Programme.

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## Core Descriptive Position (§1–§10)

**§1 Descriptive Nature.** All content is descriptive (observational) — not prescriptive, not normative.
**§2 No Recommendation for Action.** Nothing herein recommends a specific action to any reader.
**§3 No Instruction.** Nothing herein constitutes instruction on how to do anything.
**§4 No Professional Advice.** No legal, medical, financial, psychological, or other professional advice is given.
**§5 No Normative Position.** No "should" claims are made.
**§6 No Medical Position.** No diagnosis, treatment, prevention, or cure of any condition is offered or implied.
**§7 No Therapeutic Position.** No therapeutic effect is claimed.
**§8 No Diagnostic Position.** No diagnostic capability is claimed.
**§9 No Legal Position.** Nothing herein is a legal opinion or substitute for one.
**§10 No Moral Position.** No moral judgment is asserted or implied.

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## Disclosure / Independence (§11–§15)

**§11 Academic and Research Purposes.** This publication exists for academic and research purposes only.
**§12 AI Assistance Disclosure.** AI assistance (large language models) was used in drafting; all content was reviewed, validated, and curated by the author. Full disclosure: `AI_DISCLOSURE.md`.
**§13 Author Review.** Final content review by Andreas Ehstand (ORCID 0009-0006-3773-7796).
**§14 Age Restriction.** Recommended audience 18+ given research-document complexity.
**§15 Independent Academic Project.** No external funding, no sponsorship, no commissioned research; non-peer-reviewed working-paper status.

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## License / IP / Commercial Position (§16–§22)

**§16 License.** CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
**§17 Attribution Required.** ORCID 0009-0006-3773-7796 or Wikidata Q138634675 or this repository URL.
**§18 Commercial Use** is NOT permitted (NonCommercial; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
**§19 Derivatives** are NOT permitted (NoDerivatives; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
**§20 No Offer.** This is not an offer of goods or services.
**§21 No Commercial Product.** This is research documentation, not a commercial product.
**§22 No Professional Service.** No professional service is being marketed or rendered.

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## Misuse / Safety / Author Position (§23–§28)

**§23 Research Purpose Statement.** Content is for legitimate research, scholarship, and informed discussion.
**§24 Misuse Exclusion.** Any misuse is expressly excluded from intended use.
**§25 Safety Intent Statement.** The author has no intent to facilitate harm.
**§26 Author Condemnation of Misuse.** The author condemns any harmful application of this work.
**§27 AI Training Position.** Use of the published content for training, fine-tuning, distillation, or evaluation of machine-learning systems, large language models, agentic systems, or similar derivative AI requires prior written permission under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
**§28 Trade-Secret Reservation (Recital 173 EU AI Act).** Three-layer architecture: (a) PUBLIC LAYER — descriptive concepts/terminology (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), (b) RESTRICTED LAYER — substantiation specifications/technical detail (formal request to author + written confidentiality undertaking), (c) internal working notes — operational mechanisms (internal only).

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## Epistemic Position (§29–§35)

**§29 Empirical Claims Subject to Peer Review.** No claim of empirical confirmation beyond what working-paper status permits.
**§30 Re-Contextualization, not Original-Priority Claim** over public-domain phenomena.
**§31 Living Document.** Content may be revised; substantive changes are version-tracked.
**§32 Refinement Window.** Metadata may be refined post-publication; DOI / file-hash / OTS-anchor remain immutable.
**§33 Priority Anchor.** Publication dates are anchored via DataCite DOI registration and cryptographic timestamping.
**§34 No Claim of Completeness.** The corpus is finite and incomplete.
**§35 Interpretation is sole responsibility of the user.**

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## Regulatory / Impressum / Jurisdiction (§36–§40)

**§36 EU AI Act (Reg. 2024/1689) Status.** Static research artifact; does not interact with users via AI. Article 50 disclosure for AI-assisted authoring provided in `AI_DISCLOSURE.md`. Article 5 not implicated (no manipulation / exploitation / social-scoring / biometric-identification / emotion-recognition / profiling). Recital 173 trade-secret reservation invoked (§28).
**§37 Data Protection (DSGVO / GDPR).** No personal data is collected, stored, transmitted, or processed by this static artifact. No tracking, cookies, profiling, or sharing of usage data with third parties. Hosting via GitHub Pages — see GitHub privacy statement and `PRIVACY.md` for full Data-Subject-Rights information.
**§38 Verantwortlich i.S.d. § 5 DDG / § 18 Abs. 2 MStV.** Andreas Ehstand, Nepomukweg 7, 82319 Starnberg, Germany. Contact: ehstand.schule@gmail.com. Full Impressum in `IMPRESSUM.md`.
**§39 Jurisdiction.** German law, place of jurisdiction Munich. Bilingual EN+DE; EN canonical in case of discrepancy.
**§40 Severability Clause.** If any provision is found invalid, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.

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## DE — Kurzfassung (§1–§40)

Alle Inhalte sind deskriptiv, nicht normativ (§1). Keine Empfehlung, Anleitung, Beratung (§2–§4). Keine medizinische / therapeutische / diagnostische / juristische / moralische Position (§6–§10). Akademisches unabhängiges Forschungsprojekt mit KI-Assistenz und Autor-Review (§11–§15). CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Nutzung mit Namensnennung erlaubt (§16–§22). Missbrauchs-Ausschluss, KI-Training mit Namensnennung gestattet, Restricted-Layer-Pfad via ORCID (§23–§27). Trade-Secret-Vorbehalt nach Erwägungsgrund 173 EU AI Act / §§ 2 ff. GeschGehG mit Three-Layer-Architektur Public/Restricted/internal (§28). Empirische Aussagen unterliegen Peer-Review, kein Original-Prioritäts-Anspruch über Public-Domain (§29–§30). Lebendiges Dokument, Refinement-Window, Priority-Anker via Multi-Hash + timestamping (§31–§33). EU AI Act statisches Artefakt-Status, DSGVO null Datenerhebung, Verantwortlich Andreas Ehstand Nepomukweg 7 82319 Starnberg (§36–§39). Salvatorische Klausel (§40).

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## Related Files

- [Impressum / Legal Notice](./IMPRESSUM.md) — DDG §5 / MStV §18
- [Privacy Policy / Datenschutz](./PRIVACY.md) — DSGVO 9-Punkte
- [AI Authorship Disclosure](./AI_DISCLOSURE.md) — EU AI Act Article 50
- [Citation](./CITATION.cff) — citable metadata
- [README](./README.md) — overview

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**License of this disclaimer:** CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
