Creative Commons has previewed an upcoming framework designed to help creators manage how artificial intelligence models use their content. The framework, which is called CC Signals. The new CC Signals framework will allow creators to publish a document that specifies how AI models may and may not use their content. This document will “range in enforceability, legally binding in some cases and normative in others,” Creative Commons staffers noted. The reason is that the extent to which creators can limit AI models’ use of their works varies by jurisdiction. Creative Commons detailed that the framework will include four content usage stipulations. Each one sets forth a different set of requirements for how AI models may interact with a file. CC Signals will allow creators to apply up to two of the four stipulations to a given file. Using CC Signals, creators can also indicate that they expect compensation from AI developers who use their work. That compensation may take several forms. CC Signals will allow for monetary or in-kind contributions to a file’s creators, as well as to the broader “ecosystem from which you are benefiting.” According to Creative Commons, there will be support multiple definitions of open-source AI. Content creators may require that a neural network’s weights be available under a free license. They can also go further and mandate that the tooling with which the algorithm was developed be open source as well.