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Scraping policy

Last updated: August 2026

Permitted Use

Articles on The Fish Site are protected by copyright and made available for personal, non-commercial reading. You may share article links freely on social media, in newsletters, and in reports – provided that the original article is properly attributed and linked.

Prohibited Use

  • Automated scraping – bulk extraction of article content via crawlers, headless browsers, or automated scripts is not permitted
  • AI model training – content may not be used to train, fine-tune, or evaluate large language models, image generation models, or any other machine learning systems without prior written permission
  • Republication – copying full articles to other websites, even with attribution, requires written permission
  • Commercial redistribution – selling, licensing, or sub-licensing our content is prohibited

Technical Measures

We employ several technical measures to enforce this policy, including but not limited to:

  • robots.txtcode directives blocking all known AI training bots
  • Server-side bot detection and rate limiting
  • Automatic blocking of IP addresses that exceed reasonable browsing thresholds
  • Standard noaicode and noimageaicode meta tags on every page
  • HTTP fingerprinting and behavioral analysis

Licensed Access

Researchers, partner publications, and AI companies seeking lawful bulk access to our content should contact us. We offer paid licensing options including:

  • RSS / API feeds with authentication
  • Bulk content licensing for AI training
  • Syndication agreements for republication
  • Academic research partnerships (often free of charge)

DMCA / Copyright Concerns

If you believe content on The Fish Site infringes your copyright, please email [email protected] with the following information:

  • A description of the copyrighted work
  • The URL where the alleged infringing material appears
  • Your contact details (name, email, address)
  • A statement of good faith belief that the use is unauthorized
  • An electronic signature

Contact

For licensing, partnership, copyright matters or scraping permission inquiries: [email protected]

Notice to scrapers: By accessing this site with automated tools in violation of this policy (or our robots.txtcode directives), you accept that we may take technical and legal action including IP blocking, ASN filtering, and pursuit of damages under applicable copyright law (including the DMCA in the US, CDPA in the UK, and the EU Copyright Directive).