Rights model

Origin is a fact. Rights are a conclusion. Every item on this wire carries both, separately, in machine-readable form — so a subscriber never has to guess what may be done with a story, and never receives text without the conditions attached to it.

Six classes

Class	What it means	Full text
owned	Produced by Wireva: our desk, our reporting, our commissioned work.	yes
agency_original	Written by us from facts found in one or more sources. Facts are not owned; the wording is ours and is checked for independence.	yes, once the independence check passes
licensed	Third-party content we hold a redistribution agreement for.	yes, under the partner terms
open_license	Material under an open licence, delivered with its licence and attribution requirements.	yes, under the licence
link_only	Monitoring: headline, permitted extract, source and link. We do not distribute the body.	no — extract only
restricted	Internal editorial use. Never delivered to a subscriber.	no

The independence check

An agency original is only an original if it is written, not copied. Every item is compared with the upstream text it was built from — token overlap measured against the smaller of the two sets, the same metric the newsroom uses to catch duplicates. Below 0.35 the item is cleared for redistribution; up to 0.55 it waits for a desk decision; above that it drops to link_only and only ever travels as an extract with a link.

Facts from an official source or a press release are free to use, so an overlap with a government statement is not treated as a rights problem — that exception is a named rule (official_source_facts), not a silent one.

What travels with every item

"wireva:rights": {
  "class": "agency_original",
  "redistribution_allowed": true,
  "commercial_use_allowed": true,
  "modifications_allowed": true,
  "attribution_required": true,
  "attribution_text": "Wireva / Kernblik",
  "canonical_required": true,
  "canonical_url": "https://kernblik.mib.news/…",
  "linkback_required": true,
  "excerpt_max_chars": 0,
  "decided_by_rule": "agency_original_verified"
}

Pictures

A photograph is never passed off as ours. Each asset records its creator, source, source page, licence and licence URL, and the machine flags derived from them: attribution required, commercial use, modifications, share-alike. The consequence is a delivery mode:

• file — the licence lets us hand the file over, and we do.
• preview_and_link — a low-resolution preview from us, the original at the source.
• link_only — address and terms; the subscriber fetches it from the rights holder.

An image with no machine-readable licence defaults to link_only and is flagged for review. That is a delivery decision, not a refusal: the subscriber still receives the address, the credit and the conditions.

Canonical and embargo

Items first published by a network title carry canonical_url pointing at that title, and canonical_required: true. Agency-first material can instead carry an embargo_until stamp — both are per-item fields, so agency-first and network-first can coexist on one wire.