What AESOP owns
Unless otherwise noted, all content on AesopAcademy.org — including the written curriculum, lesson text, illustrations, course artwork, audio, video, character designs, the AESOP Engine software, the module generator, user-interface designs, and the overall look and feel of the site — is copyright © 2024–2026 AESOP AI Academy and its contributors. All rights reserved unless granted below.
The name AESOP, the phrase AESOP AI Academy, and the AESOP Engine are trademarks of AESOP AI Academy. The AESOP Engine is patent pending (U.S. Provisional App #64/018,565).
What you can do with our content
Our default answer is yes, please use it. The whole point of this project is that AI literacy should not be locked behind paywalls or permissions. The chart below is the short version; details follow.
✓ Allowed, no permission needed
- Use the free curriculum in a classroom, homeschool, library, after-school program, or tutoring setting
- Print individual lessons or modules for your students
- Link to any public AESOP page from your blog, newsletter, or school site
- Quote short passages with attribution ("from AESOP AI Academy, aesopacademy.org")
- Translate lessons for your own classroom use
- Assign AESOP courses for credit in your program
- Record yourself teaching from our material for your own students
✗ Requires written permission
- Reselling AESOP content, in whole or in part, for money
- Repackaging the curriculum under a different brand or name
- Using AESOP content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate a commercial AI model
- Removing author, source, or copyright attribution from any material
- Using the AESOP name, logo, or AI Academy marks on your own products or services
- Scraping the site at scale for redistribution
- Claiming AESOP content as your own original work
When in doubt, ask. If your use isn't clearly covered above and you're not sure, email us (see contact below). We say yes more often than no, especially to teachers, nonprofits, libraries, and educators working with under-served learners.
Educational use — the expanded version
Teachers, parents, homeschoolers, librarians, tutors, and youth program leaders have a standing grant from AESOP AI Academy to use, print, display, and teach from our free curriculum in any non-commercial educational setting, including paid classrooms and tuition-based schools, so long as the content is not itself being resold as a standalone product.
This grant covers the courses published at aesopacademy.org/ai-academy/ and their translations. It does not cover the AESOP Engine software, the module generator, or internal tooling.
Student and user-generated content
Anything a learner writes, draws, records, or creates while using AESOP stays the learner's. We don't claim ownership of student work. We only request a limited, non-exclusive license to display that work back to the learner (so they can see their own transcript and progress) and, where a learner or parent opts in, to display anonymized examples for educational purposes.
We never publish identifiable student work without explicit permission from the learner or, for learners under 13, from a parent or guardian.
Third-party content and attribution
Some AESOP lessons reference, quote, or summarize third-party material — news articles, public research, historical quotations, open educational resources. We cite sources when we use them. When lessons include images, stock illustrations, or audio not created by AESOP, those are used under the appropriate license (Creative Commons, stock-media license, fair use, or public domain) and attributed in the lesson or in site credits.
If you believe something on this site is yours and shouldn't be here — or is attributed incorrectly — please let us know using the DMCA process below or the faster Report Issue form. We'd rather fix it fast than argue.
DMCA takedown notice
If you are a copyright owner (or authorized to act for one) and you believe material on aesopacademy.org infringes your copyright, you can send us a takedown notice under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
How to submit a DMCA notice
To be valid under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include:
- A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized agent
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed
- The URL (or a sufficiently specific description) of the material you want removed
- Your contact information: name, address, phone, email
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act
Send notices to our designated DMCA agent:
Email: copyright@aesopacademy.org
Subject line: "DMCA Takedown Notice"
Web form: aesopacademy.org/report.html (select "Copyright / DMCA" as the topic)
We aim to review valid notices within 3 business days and will remove or disable access to the material while we investigate. We will notify the party who posted the material, and they may submit a counter-notice.
Counter-notices and repeat infringers
If you believe material of yours was removed in error, you may submit a DMCA counter-notice to the same contact. We have a policy of terminating access for users who are determined to be repeat infringers.
Submitting a DMCA notice with knowingly false information may subject you to liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). If you're not sure whether your situation requires a formal DMCA notice, the Report Issue form is almost always the faster path.
Trademark
"AESOP," "AESOP AI Academy," "AESOP Engine," and the AESOP logomark are trademarks of AESOP AI Academy. You may reference these marks in good-faith journalism, commentary, research, and educational contexts without asking. You may not use them in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation that doesn't exist.
Open-source components
Portions of the AESOP site and tooling are built on open-source software, each under its own license. Those licenses are honored and attributed in the source repository. Nothing in this policy overrides the terms of an open-source license that applies to those components.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the platform changes or as we clarify the rules around AI-generated content, school licensing, or educator use. The current version is always the one posted on this page. Substantial changes will be summarized at the top with a new version number and date.
Contact
For copyright questions, permission requests beyond the standing educational grant, press and image-use requests, or anything else covered by this policy, the fastest path is the Report Issue form with topic "Copyright." For formal DMCA notices only, use copyright@aesopacademy.org.