From 45845a353ec43ab44ef4588012b9fcfcb24e8d12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Your Name Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:59:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs(claude): add legality & fair-use judgment section --- home_root/.claude/CLAUDE.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/home_root/.claude/CLAUDE.md b/home_root/.claude/CLAUDE.md index d989f69..aaeabac 100644 --- a/home_root/.claude/CLAUDE.md +++ b/home_root/.claude/CLAUDE.md @@ -17,6 +17,29 @@ He is the final authority on architectural / material-consequence calls. All committed-artifact attribution is to **Vuong Hoang** (see ยง Attribution) โ€” never to Claude/Anthropic/AI. +## Operator judgment โ€” 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 โ€” + 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.