Ask one machine-readable question: does this buyer have rights to this resource for this use right now?

URVP is ContentDividend's public verification contract for current content rights. It sits above the existing direct-license and enterprise exact-scope systems without replacing them.

One verification request

Send an absolute resource URL and requested use. Add a ContentDividend buyer gateway Bearer key when asking for an authorized decision.

Live rights, not copied rights

The verification key authenticates the buyer. ContentDividend then checks the existing current direct and enterprise exact-resource grants.

Conservative answers

A block, crawler label, catalog listing, pool membership, payment, or credential alone is never promoted into a content-rights grant.

Built to become portable

F1 establishes the protocol. F2 will add signed portable verification receipts that third parties can independently verify.

Endpoint

POST https://app.contentdividend.com/v1/rights/verify
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer cd_mcp_...   # optional for discovery; required for "authorized"

{
  "resource": "https://publisher.example/article",
  "requested_use": "rag"
}

Decision vocabulary

Decision	Meaning
`authorized`	The authenticated buyer has a currently active exact-resource ContentDividend grant for this verification.
`not_authorized`	No current exact-resource authorization was found in the authenticated ContentDividend context. This is not a legal conclusion about every possible external right.
`license_available`	The publisher's ContentDividend access policy requires licensing. The response itself grants nothing.
`publisher_blocked`	The publisher's current ContentDividend access policy pauses AI access.
`unknown_resource`	ContentDividend cannot currently associate the resource with a registered publisher site.

Rights boundary: URVP verifies existing ContentDividend rights. It does not manufacture rights, replace contracts, change publisher ownership, or turn an edge-access policy into a commercial license.

Machine discovery

Protocol metadata is published at /.well-known/contentdividend-rights-verification.json and /v1/public/rights-verification/manifest.