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gls-001	AI lab	A company or research group that trains large AI models. Labs license data from companies because real work records show how tasks are done, which public web text does not.	Selling company data to AI labs	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/
gls-002	Acceptance window	The period after delivery when an AI lab reviews the data against agreed checks and accepts or rejects it. The license states the length of the window and the payment date.	How you get paid	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/how-you-get-paid/
gls-003	Anonymization	Changing data so that people can no longer be identified from it by any means reasonably likely to be used. Most privacy laws treat truly anonymous data as outside their rules, and each sets its own test for when that point is reached.	Privacy rules by region	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/
gls-004	Bayh-Dole Act	A US law that lets a university or other institution keep rights to inventions made with federal research funding. It covers inventions, not the writing in a thesis, so a thesis is decided by the school's policy and by copyright law.	Universities and research labs	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/universities-and-research-labs/
gls-005	Broker fee	What we are paid for arranging a deal. The AI lab pays it, and only after the deal closes.	About and how we earn	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/about/
gls-006	Common Rule	The US federal rule for research on people. It sets what a consent form must say and has a section on broad consent for later research use. An older consent form often says nothing about AI training, so the question for each study is what its participants agreed to.	Theses and dissertations	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/data/theses-and-dissertations/
gls-007	Company data	The records a company creates by doing its work: support tickets, emails, quotes, work orders, project histories, procedures. Owners also call it business records or operating records.	What kinds of records can be licensed	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/data/
gls-008	Company operations data	The working record of one business: its email, chat, tickets, wiki pages and project history, kept connected so a question in chat can be followed to the ticket and the result.	Company operations data for AI labs	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/buy/company-operations-data/
gls-009	Consent	A person agreeing to a use of their information. Whether consent is needed, and what it must cover, depends on the privacy law that applies to the people in the data.	Privacy rules by region	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/
gls-010	Controller and processor	Two roles in privacy law such as the GDPR. The controller decides why and how personal data is used, and a processor handles it on the controller's behalf under a contract. Which role a company has changes what it answers for.	Who answers for what	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/liability/
gls-011	Covered entity	Under the US health privacy rule (HIPAA), a health plan, a clearinghouse or a health care provider that bills electronically. Health information held by a covered entity can leave only through a permitted route, such as de-identification to the standard in the rule.	United States rules	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/us/
gls-012	CPRA	The California Privacy Rights Act, which changed California's privacy law. People can opt out of the sale of their data and of its sharing for targeted advertising, even when no money changes hands, so audience data used for ads is left out of a license.	Martech and adtech companies	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/martech-and-adtech-companies/
gls-013	Data card	A one-page description of a dataset: what it contains, how big it is, what period it covers, where it came from, how it was cleaned and what rights go with it. A lab reads it before asking for a sample.	How a deal runs	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/how-it-works/
gls-014	Data licensing	Letting an AI lab use a copy of your data under written terms. You keep ownership and keep using the data yourself. You license data; you do not sell it.	Sell or license your data	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/
gls-015	Data room	A controlled place where an approved sample is reviewed. Access is limited to named people, and the company decides what goes in.	How a deal runs	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/how-it-works/
gls-016	Data valuation calculator	Our free tool that asks a few questions about your records and returns a rough range. It is an estimate, not a final offer: a real offer needs a sample and comes in writing.	What's my data worth?	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/tools/data-value-calculator/
gls-017	Date shifting	Moving every date in one person's records by the same random number of days, so the order and spacing of events stay but the real dates are hidden. Under the US health rule, dates other than the year are among the identifiers to remove unless an expert approves another method.	De-identification	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/de-identification/
gls-018	De-identification	Removing or replacing the personal information in data, then testing whether anyone could still be identified. Each privacy law sets its own test, so the work is done to the strictest one that applies.	De-identification service	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/de-identification/
gls-019	Deviation report	A written record, in a regulated plant, of a time when a step did not go as the procedure says. It holds the investigation, the cause and the fix. With the product, batch and staff details removed, it shows how a team solves a problem.	Pharma companies	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/pharma-companies/
gls-020	Egocentric data	Video recorded from the point of view of the person doing a task, for example from a head or chest camera. Labs look at it to learn how hands-on work is done. It often shows other people, so consent, blurring and audio removal matter.	Egocentric video	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/egocentric-video/
gls-021	Embargo	A hold on the release of a thesis or paper until a set date, usually set by the school or a sponsor. Work under an embargo is not ready to be listed until the hold ends.	Theses and dissertations	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/data/theses-and-dissertations/
gls-022	Escrow	Money held by a neutral third party and released when stated conditions are met. In a data deal it can protect the seller from nonpayment and the AI lab from paying for data that does not arrive.	How you get paid	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/how-you-get-paid/
gls-023	Eval	A test an AI system can sit. It has a task, a way to check the result and a score. Good evals are built from real work, which is one reason labs look for company records.	What is recursive self-improvement?	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/slides/recursive-self-improvement-ai-labs-company-data/
gls-024	Exclusive broker agreement	A written agreement for a fixed period under which one broker presents your data to AI labs. It exists so the broker is not duplicating effort and can keep good relationships with the labs. It is different from an exclusive license to a lab, which is a separate term worked out in the deal.	Check an offer	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/check-an-offer/
gls-025	Expert Determination	One of the two ways to de-identify health data under the US health privacy rule. A qualified expert in statistics finds that the risk of identifying anyone is very small and documents the methods and results. We do not make this determination; the expert does.	United States rules	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/us/
gls-026	Fine-tuning data	Examples used to adapt an existing model to a task or an industry. Company records, once cleaned, can serve as fine-tuning examples.
gls-027	Ground-truth label	The correct answer recorded next to each example, such as whether a claim was paid. A model learns from it, so a label entered by hand and sometimes forgotten teaches less than one produced by a system rule.	Labeled tables and datasets	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/data/labeled-tables-and-datasets/
gls-028	Hand-object interaction	How a hand reaches, grasps, holds, moves and lets go of an object. In egocentric video it is labeled so a model can learn fine manipulation, such as which finger holds a tool and when contact starts and ends.	Egocentric video annotation	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/egocentric-video/annotation/
gls-029	Health Breach Notification Rule	A US Federal Trade Commission rule that covers health apps and similar services that HIPAA does not cover. It was updated in 2024. Patient data stays private whichever rule applies.	Health tech companies	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/health-tech-companies/
gls-030	Indemnification	A promise to cover another party's losses from stated problems, such as a claim caused by your breach. In a data license it says who pays if something goes wrong, and it is often paired with a limit on the amount.	Who answers for what	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/liability/
gls-031	Limitation of liability	A contract clause that caps what one side can be asked to pay. Many data licenses tie the cap to the fees received, with exceptions the contract lists.	Who answers for what	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/liability/
gls-032	k-anonymity	A check that every combination of identifying details in a dataset, such as age band, town and job title, is shared by at least k people. If one combination belongs to one person, that person can be picked out.	De-identification	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/de-identification/
gls-033	Motivated intruder test	A re-identification check used by the UK regulator. You ask whether a reasonably competent person with ordinary resources, such as the internet and public records, who is determined to identify people, could do so from the data.	United Kingdom rules	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/uk/
gls-034	PHI	Protected health information: health data that identifies a person, held by an organization covered by the US health privacy rule. It leaves a covered organization only by a permitted route.	United States rules	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/us/
gls-035	PII	Personally identifiable information: anything that points to a person, such as a name, email address, phone number, account number, or a detail that identifies them in combination with others.	What counts as PII	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/de-identification/#pii
gls-036	Perpetual use rights	A license with no end date for the data the lab has already trained on. A trained model cannot give the data back, so use rights are usually perpetual. Exclusivity is different and is never perpetual.	Check an offer	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/check-an-offer/
gls-037	Physical AI	AI that acts in the physical world, such as robots and other embodied systems. It learns from footage and sensor data of real tasks, which is why labs look for egocentric video.	Video for robotics and physical AI	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/egocentric-video/robotics-and-physical-ai/
gls-038	Provenance memo	A short record of where a dataset came from, who owns it, how it was collected and cleaned, and which agreements cover it. It lets a lab and its counsel check the data without asking you to repeat the story.	What we will not broker	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/what-we-will-not-broker/
gls-039	Pseudonymization	Replacing names and identifiers with codes while a key still links them back. The result is still personal data for whoever can use the key, so codes for names are not enough on their own.	Privacy rules by region	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/
gls-040	Quasi-identifier	A detail that does not name a person but can identify them when combined with others, such as age, postal code and a rare diagnosis, or a job title and a start date.	De-identification	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/de-identification/
gls-041	Re-identification	Working out who a person is from data that was cleaned. A de-identification record shows how the risk was tested and who could attempt it.	De-identification	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/de-identification/
gls-042	Reinforcement learning (RL) environment	A practice setting where an AI attempts a task, gets a score and tries again. Labs build them from real business workflows: the task, the grader and the recorded attempts.	What labs build from workflow data	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/workflows/
gls-043	Restricted transfer	Sending personal data to an organization in another country in a way a privacy law limits. The UK and the EU require a transfer tool such as an adequacy decision or approved contract terms; other regions have their own rules.	Privacy rules by region	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/
gls-044	Rights-clean data	Data the company owns or may license, with no third-party claim and no contract that bars the use. It is checked before a sample is shown.	What we will not broker	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/what-we-will-not-broker/
gls-045	Safe Harbor	One of the two ways to de-identify health data under the US health privacy rule. It removes a list of 18 kinds of identifiers, such as names, small geographic areas, most dates, phone numbers and record numbers, and requires that there is no actual knowledge the rest could identify someone.	United States rules	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/us/
gls-046	Safeguards Rule	A US Federal Trade Commission rule for financial companies. It says covered companies must protect customer information, meaning private details about their customers, and hold their service providers to the same standard by contract.	Fintech companies	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/sell/fintech-companies/
gls-047	Sample	A small slice of your data, de-identified and approved by you before it leaves, that a lab reviews to judge the whole set. No one can price company data without seeing a sample.	How a deal runs	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/how-it-works/
gls-048	SOP	A standard operating procedure: a written method for how a task is done, with its revisions. In a regulated plant each change comes with a stated reason, which makes it useful material for an AI lab.	SOPs and knowledge bases	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/data/sops-and-knowledge-bases/
gls-049	Special category data	Personal data that privacy laws such as the UK and EU GDPR treat as more sensitive: health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, union membership, genetic and biometric data used to identify someone, and sex life or orientation. Free text in tickets and emails can contain it by accident.	European Union rules	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/regions/eu/
gls-050	Trajectory	The recorded sequence of steps an agent or a person took on a task, with the result. It shows how the work was done, not only the answer.	Sell workflows	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/workflows/
gls-051	Training data	The examples a model learns from. For company data, the useful part is usually the chain from a request to an outcome, not an isolated file.	What kinds of records can be licensed	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/data/
gls-052	VLA model	A vision-language-action model. It takes camera images and an instruction in words and produces the actions to carry it out. Egocentric video of people doing tasks is one source of training examples for it.	Video for robotics and physical AI	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/egocentric-video/robotics-and-physical-ai/
gls-053	Work made for hire	Work an employee creates as part of the job, which US copyright law treats as owned by the employer and not by the person who wrote it. Contractors and commissioned work follow different rules.	Theses and dissertations	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/data/theses-and-dissertations/
gls-054	Workflow data	How a team gets work done, captured as documented processes, recorded task runs or AI-assisted tasks. It is priced per workflow, and what is captured is agreed with you first.	Sell workflows	https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/workflows/

Data Licensing Glossary

Terms used when companies license data to AI labs, each with a plain definition: AI lab, de-identification, indemnity, exclusivity and more.

All text is our own, taken from pages we publish at aitrainingdatabroker.com. Nothing comes from a customer.

Size

54 train rows.

Fields

Field	Meaning
`id`	`gls-001` and up
`term`	the word or phrase
`definition`	what it means, in one to three sentences
`see_also`	the page it points to
`see_also_url`	that page's address on the site

Load it

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("aitrainingdatabroker/data-licensing-glossary", split="train")
print({r["term"]: r["definition"] for r in ds}["AI lab"])

Limits

Definitions are written for owners and teams, not as legal definitions.
This is general information, not legal advice and not a certification. Laws and market practice change; ask your counsel and, where a rule requires one, a qualified expert.

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