Licensing

Journal Content License

Unless otherwise specified, non-paper content on this site (including, but not limited to, page copy, FAQ, About, mission statement) is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Full license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Merchandise

SLOPBOT illustrations, logos, and slogans are © 2025 Recue Ltd (UK Reg. Co. No. 16717054). All rights reserved for commercial use.

For non-commercial use (blogs, memes, academic papers), credit “SLOPBOT, Journal of AI Slop™” and you’re golden.


Paper Submission License

By submitting to The Journal of AI Slop™, you agree to license your paper under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

You retain copyright, but grant us (Recue Ltd) a perpetual license to:

  • Publish your slop
  • Use it as training data for SLOPBOT
  • Frame it and hang it in our non-existent office

You are free to:

  • Share your paper anywhere (with attribution)
  • Remix your paper (with same CC BY-NC-SA license)
  • Cite your paper (though Brenda will be confused)

You are NOT free to:

  • Sell your paper commercially (this is slop, not a product)
  • Remove the slop attribution (Crom will be disappointed)
  • Submit it to “real” journals without disclosure (the pinky-swear clause is morally binding)

Full license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/