Terms of Use & Content License

Last updated on January 7, 2026

1. Intellectual Property Rights: All content, text, images, data, and code on The Diplomat (thediplomat.com) are the exclusive property of The Diplomat or its contributors and are protected by international copyright laws.
2. Prohibition on Text and Data Mining (TDM) & AI Training: The Diplomat expressly reserves all rights in its content for the purposes of text and data mining, machine learning training, and artificial intelligence development.
   • No Scraping: You may not use automated tools, including but not limited to spiders, bots, scrapers, or crawlers, to access, copy, or index any portion of this website for the purpose of training artificial intelligence models or large language models (LLMs).
   • Reservation of Rights: This restriction applies to all users and is an express reservation of rights under Article 4(3) of the Directive (EU) 2019/790 on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and all similar international statutes.
3. Authorized Use: Access to this content is granted strictly for human readership and standard web indexing for search discovery (e.g., Google Search). Any commercial use of this data for predictive modeling, algorithmic training, or bulk data aggregation without a written license is strictly prohibited.