Network/Register/Provider Licensing Review
Gap Register
G-039Public

Provider licensing review

Tier 1 — Existential, blocks launch
Status
Open — not started
Owner
Creator
Why now
Blocks Layer 9 monetization and any Fandom-derived ingest until resolved.

Per-provider license review required before each ingestion stream goes live; TMDB commercial terms and Fandom CC-BY-SA are the active blockers.

Why this matters

TMDB is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires a deal, which becomes load-bearing the moment Layer 9 monetization activates. Fandom is CC-BY-SA, meaning derivative works inherit the license — directly affecting OLN's content model and creator monetization. Wikidata (CC0) and MusicBrainz (CC0) are clean. IGDB needs verification.

Action: per-provider license review before each ingestion stream goes live. Holding pattern for Fandom: reference-only signal (suggestion input for human authoring) rather than direct ingest until license scope is resolved.