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Playbook: Governance
Phase IV: IP & Ops
Navigating Copyright, Patents, and Terms of Service shields. Managing 'Inference Capital' and operational costs.
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11. Copyright & IP
AI-generated code is likely public domain. Protect the 'Selection and Arrangement'.
- Strategy: Protect the compilation of AI output + human glue code.
- Documentation: Keep a 'creation log' of prompts.
- Patents: Patent the 'data processing pipeline', not the 'AI'.
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Terms of Service Shield
Use ToS to prohibit scraping and reverse engineering. This creates contract-based protection where copyright fails.
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17. Operations Accounting
Manage LLM costs like server costs.
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Caching
Semantic caching reduces bills by 30-50%.
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Model Routing
Route simple queries to cheaper models.
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Monitoring
Use Helicone/Langfuse to track token usage.