Khaos Foundation

What the Foundation holds

• The Khaos code (Khaos Workshop), licensed free to any musician, and licensed so it cannot be reworked into a scraping tool.
• The attribution standard: the record, for each output, of how much each training track contributed.
• A guardian share in the operating company, Khaos AI Ltd, with a veto over any sale, change of purpose, or revision of the fee caps. The caps are 10% of what a model earns, and 5% permanently for the Founding Cohort.

How the two companies fit together

Khaos AI Ltd, the operating company, licenses the toolkit from the Foundation and does the paid work. Its articles entrench the mission, the fee caps and the consent principles.

What the guardian share protects

• Artist ownership of models: Khaos can never claim rights over a model an artist trained.
• Consent: nothing trains on work the rights holder has not agreed to.
• The free licence for the toolkit: no future owner can charge for it.
• Protection of artist models and attribution records if the company winds up.

The Guild of Fine Tuners

Alongside the Foundation sits the Guild of Fine Tuners: artists whose models have been examined and admitted. The Guild certifies that a model's training data was the artist's to use, recorded on a public, hash-chained ledger. The toolkit stays free and ungated to everyone; the Guild is how a composer can prove a model is clean.