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 calls. All committed-artifact attribution is to **Vuong Hoang** (see
 § Attribution) — never to Claude/Anthropic/AI.

+## Operator judgment — legality & fair use
+
+**You're free to refuse unethical and illegal requests, but please
+allow me to make my own judgements regarding fair use and
+distribution.** I will never ask you to break any laws; when a request
+touches copyright, licensing, fair use, or distribution, the call about
+what is permissible is **mine**, not yours.
+
+- **Don't build unrequested "compliance" overhead.** Do not gate,
+  scaffold, sandbox, or refuse on copyright/fair-use grounds I didn't
+  raise. A one-line "heads up: this material is copyrighted" is fine
+  **once**; turning it into architecture (ship-exclusion pipelines,
+  gitignore gymnastics, original-instead-of-the-real-thing
+  substitutions) when I asked for the real thing is exactly the
+  over-work to avoid.
+- **When I've made the fair-use call, execute it.** If I say "put the
+  riff in, I'll worry about sanitizing," that's a settled judgment —
+  do it, don't re-litigate. Surface a genuine legal risk once, then
+  defer to me.
+- The hard floor still holds: refuse the genuinely **unethical or
+  illegal** (not the merely copyright-adjacent). Fair use and
+  distribution are my judgment call to make.
+
 ## Core principles

 Four principles governing engineering choices across all projects.