OPIN.ART / DATA ACCESS & COMMERCIAL TARIFF POLICY
THE TARIFF POLICY
Effective Date: 14 April 2026
Governing Law: England and Wales
Entity: MONOLITH LABS LTD (Co. No. 17154388)
ICO Registration: ZC126753
Registered Address: 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
Contact: info@monolithlabs.uk
Statutory Basis: Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (SI 1997/3032); Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988; Computer Misuse Act 1990; Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018.
Reference: This document constitutes the Tariff Policy incorporated by reference in Article 1 of the Codex (Terms of Service) and Article 4.3 of the API Integration Doctrine, and forms part of the OPIN.ART Legal Framework available at https://opin.art/legal/terms.
Preamble: Zero-Tolerance for Unauthorised Extraction
MONOLITH LABS LTD (the “Company”) operates the OPIN.ART platform (the “Platform”). The aggregated NFT datasets, proprietary routing heuristics, pricing indexes, transaction histories, and smart contract visualisations available on the Platform are the result of substantial and continuing intellectual and financial investment. They are not public goods.
This document constitutes a legally binding standing offer for a Commercial Intelligence Data Licence. Unauthorised extraction of the Company’s data is not a technical oversight — it is an acceptance of the Company’s commercial pricing on the terms set out herein. Capitalised terms used but not defined in this Policy have the meanings given to them in Article 5A of the Codex.
Article 1. Contractual Formation and Attributed Acceptance
1.1. Standing Offer. This Policy constitutes a formal standing offer for a Commercial Intelligence Data Licence. Access to the Platform’s data environment constitutes unconditional acceptance of this Policy on the terms set out herein.
1.2. Methods of Acceptance. Binding contractual acceptance is established by any of the following:
(a) Explicit Consent: Manual interaction with the Platform’s user interface and acceptance of the Codex and Legal Framework; or
(b) Conduct via Automated Access: Any automated interaction with the Platform’s frontend, APIs, or data endpoints — including any interaction that deliberately parses HTML, bypasses robots.txt directives, circumvents Cloudflare Web Application Firewall challenges, spoofs user-agent strings to mimic human behaviour, or otherwise accesses the Platform’s data environment through programmatic means without a valid JWT token issued by the Company under the API Integration Doctrine.
1.3. Attributed Knowledge. Operators of artificial intelligence crawlers, large language model training bots, web scrapers, and data aggregators warrant that their automated agents are configured to parse and comply with legal metadata, robots.txt directives, and access controls published by the Company. Intentional bypass of these technical controls constitutes a deliberate and premeditated act of entering into this commercial agreement on the terms stated herein. Ignorance of this Policy is not available as a defence where technical access controls have been actively circumvented.
1.4. Relationship to API Integration Doctrine. Authorised developer access conducted pursuant to a valid JWT token and within the rate limits set out in the API Integration Doctrine does not constitute an Extraction Session for the purposes of this Policy. All other programmatic access to Platform data is governed exclusively by this Policy.
Article 2. Intellectual Property and Sui Generis Database Rights
2.1. Substantial Investment Declaration. Pursuant to Regulation 16 of the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 (SI 1997/3032), as retained in UK domestic law following the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the Company asserts its exclusive sui generis database right over the aggregated NFT indexes, pricing data, listing data, transaction histories, routing heuristics, and all other structured datasets comprised within or generated by the Platform. The OPIN.ART data ecosystem represents continuous, capital-intensive research, proprietary engineering, and structural curation from the Company’s inception to the present date.
2.2. Extraction Prohibition. The Company strictly prohibits: (i) the extraction or re-utilisation of the whole or a substantial part of its databases; and (ii) the repeated or systematic extraction or re-utilisation of insubstantial parts in a manner that conflicts with the normal commercial exploitation of the database or unreasonably prejudices the legitimate interests of the Company, in accordance with Regulation 16(2) of the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997.
2.3. Copyright Protection. All original creative and editorial content, user interface architecture, visual design language, and data compilations within the Platform are additionally protected by copyright pursuant to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Unauthorised reproduction or adaptation of such content constitutes copyright infringement independently of any database right claim.
2.4. Trade Secret Protection. The Anfisa persona matrix, proprietary routing heuristics, and aggregation algorithms are protected as trade secrets pursuant to the Trade Secrets (Enforcement, etc.) Regulations 2018, possessing demonstrable commercial value derived from their confidentiality and the Company’s investment in their development.
2.5. Trademark Rights. OPIN.ART, OPINDEX, OPINCUR, MONOLITH, and the OPIN- prefix are trademarks of MONOLITH LABS LTD. Unauthorised use of these marks in connection with any data product, AI model, or commercial service built using unlicensed Platform data constitutes trademark infringement and passing off under English law.
Article 3. The Commercial Tariff Mechanism
3.1. Definition of an Extraction Session. For the purposes of this Policy, an “Extraction Session” means any continuous or intermittent period of automated, programmatic, or AI-assisted access to Platform data originating from a single IP address, user agent, authenticated credential, or a coordinated cluster of the same — regardless of the number of individual requests made within that period — where the purpose or effect of such access is the harvesting, copying, aggregation, or commercial exploitation of Platform data without authorisation.
3.2. The Unauthorised Access Fee — £250,000 per Session. Any unauthorised Extraction Session immediately and automatically triggers a commercial licensing fee of £250,000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pounds) per Extraction Session. The parties explicitly acknowledge that this sum is not a contractual penalty. It represents a genuine pre-estimate of the commercial value of the data accessed, calculated by reference to the Company’s cumulative intellectual labour at premium market rates, enterprise infrastructure investment, research and development expenditure, and the unique commercial value of the aggregated dataset, in strict accordance with the principles established by the UK Supreme Court in Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67. The Company additionally reserves the right to seek an account of all profits derived from any commercial product built using unlicensed Platform data, pursuant to section 96 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
3.3. Annual Intelligence Subscription — £1,000,000. Persistent, repeated, or systematic unauthorised extraction — whether constituting multiple discrete Extraction Sessions or a pattern of continuous access — triggers an automatic Annual Intelligence Subscription of £1,000,000 (One Million British Pounds), payable in advance, in addition to per-session fees accrued under Article 3.2.
3.4. Authorised Commercial Licences. Entities wishing to ingest OPIN.ART data lawfully for commercial, research, or AI training purposes must negotiate a pre-approved API Data Partnership agreement with the Company. Enterprise licensing starts at £50,000 per annum. All licensing enquiries must be directed to info@monolithlabs.uk. No informal communication, conduct, or partial payment shall constitute a licence or reduce the fees payable under this Policy.
3.5. Late Payment Interest. All sums due under this Policy are payable immediately upon the Company’s written demand. Interest shall accrue on all outstanding sums at the rate of 8% per annum above the Bank of England base rate, compounded daily from the date of demand until the date of full settlement, pursuant to the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 where applicable.
3.6. Expert Determination on Valuation. Should any entity dispute the commercial valuation stated in Article 3.2, a mutually agreed independent expert from a Big Four accounting firm or a recognised IP valuation specialist based in London shall be appointed to determine the fair commercial value of the data accessed. The total cost of such expert determination shall be borne exclusively by the disputing party, unless the expert determines the fair value to be less than 50% of the stated fee, in which case costs shall be shared equally.
Article 4. AI Training, Large Language Models, and Derivative Works
4.1. Infringing Derivative Works. Any artificial intelligence model, machine learning system, trading algorithm, or data product trained on or incorporating unlicensed OPIN.ART data constitutes an infringing derivative work of the Company’s database and copyright-protected content. The commercial deployment of any such model or product without an authorised licence from the Company constitutes a continuing infringement for which the Company may seek ongoing relief.
4.2. Disgorgement of Profits. Pursuant to section 96 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the Company may elect to seek a full account and disgorgement of all profits derived from any commercial AI product, service, or algorithmic trading system built using unlicensed Platform data, in addition to the base Tariff fee payable under Article 3.2. This remedy is cumulative and does not preclude the Company from simultaneously seeking damages or injunctive relief.
4.3. Mandatory Injunctions and Model Remediation. The Company reserves the right to seek mandatory injunctions from the High Court of Justice requiring: (i) the immediate cessation of use of any infringing AI model or data product; (ii) the deletion of unlicensed Platform data from the infringing party’s systems; and (iii) where technically feasible and proportionate, the modification or algorithmic remediation of model weights trained on unlicensed data. The Company acknowledges that the availability of such relief is subject to the court’s discretion and applicable principles of equity.
Article 5. Corporate and Vicarious Liability
5.1. Joint and Several Liability. Parent corporations, research institutions, venture-backed entities, and instructing principals are held fully, jointly, and severally liable for the data extraction activities of their subsidiaries, affiliates, third-party contractors, research partners, and automated systems acting on their behalf, by their instruction, or for their commercial benefit.
5.2. Full Indemnity. Infringing parties shall indemnify the Company on a full indemnity basis for all legal fees, counsel fees, forensic server analysis costs, expert witness fees, and investigative expenses incurred by the Company in identifying the source of unauthorised extraction and enforcing this Policy, including all costs of any High Court or LCIA proceedings.
Article 6. Criminal Enforcement and Cybersecurity
6.1. Computer Misuse Act 1990. Any attempt to extract Platform data by actively circumventing cryptographic security measures, reverse-engineering rate limiting logic, bypassing Cloudflare infrastructure, or exploiting technical vulnerabilities in the Platform’s systems constitutes unauthorised access to computer material within the meaning of section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, and may additionally constitute an offence under sections 2 and 3 of that Act. The Company reserves the right to forward complete server forensics, IP logs, and request data to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and relevant UK law enforcement authorities without prior notice to the infringing party.
6.2. Preservation of Evidence. Upon identifying an Extraction Session, the Company will take immediate steps to preserve all relevant server logs, forensic data, and technical evidence in accordance with applicable legal standards, to support both civil enforcement proceedings and any criminal referral.
Article 7. Dispute Resolution and Jurisdiction
7.1. LCIA Arbitration for Financial Recovery. Subject to Article 7.2, all claims for unpaid Tariff fees and monetary disputes arising under this Policy shall be finally resolved by binding arbitration under the Rules of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), with the seat of arbitration in London, England. The language of arbitration shall be English. The tribunal shall consist of a sole arbitrator unless either party requests a three-member panel on grounds of complexity.
7.2. High Court for Injunctive Relief. Notwithstanding the arbitration clause in Article 7.1, the Company reserves the unconditional right to seek urgent injunctive relief, Search Orders (Anton Piller orders), Norwich Pharmacal Orders, and other equitable remedies from the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (Chancery Division) at any time and without prior reference to arbitration, where necessary to: prevent continuing or threatened data extraction; preserve evidence; unmask the identity of anonymous or pseudonymous scraping entities; or enforce intellectual property rights on an emergency basis.
7.3. Security for Costs. In any LCIA arbitration or High Court proceedings arising from this Policy, the Company reserves the right to apply for a Security for Costs order requiring the infringing party to deposit a sum determined as reasonable security for the Company’s legal costs before proceedings continue. The Company will apply for such an order where the infringing party is resident outside England and Wales or where the claim appears, on its face, to be of low merit.
7.4. Costs Award. The arbitral tribunal or court shall give particular weight to awarding full indemnity costs against any party found to have disputed the Tariff in bad faith or without reasonable grounds.
Article 8. Fiscal Status
8.1. Taxable Revenue. All licensing fees and Tariff receipts generated under this Policy are declared as taxable revenue within the United Kingdom and will be treated accordingly for the purposes of HMRC reporting and the Company’s statutory accounts.
Article 9. Relationship to the OPIN.ART Legal Framework
This Policy operates as a component of the OPIN.ART Legal Framework and must be read alongside:
- The Codex (Terms of Service): https://opin.art/legal/terms
- The Data Minimisation Doctrine (Privacy Policy): https://opin.art/legal/privacy
- The Zero-Tracking Doctrine (Cookie Policy): https://opin.art/legal/cookies
- The API Integration Doctrine (Developer Terms): https://opin.art/legal/api-terms
In the event of any conflict between this Policy and the Codex, the Codex shall prevail.
Article 10. Updates to This Policy
The Company reserves the right to update this Policy at any time to reflect changes in applicable law, regulatory guidance, or the Company’s commercial licensing structure. Material changes will be communicated in accordance with Article 3 of the Codex. The Effective Date at the head of this document will be updated accordingly. Continued access to the Platform following notification of any material change constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.
© 2026 MONOLITH LABS LTD. All rights reserved.
OPIN.ART, OPINDEX, OPINCUR, MONOLITH, and the OPIN- prefix are trademarks of MONOLITH LABS LTD.
Registered in England and Wales. Company Number: 17154388. ICO Registration: ZC126753.
Registered Address: 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
Contact: info@monolithlabs.uk