THE DATA WHEELA diagnostic framework for data as a commercial assetLegalCustodyUseRegsContractTitleSavedAccessedValueBundlingForced OpenRestrictedForced ClosedRightsLimitsOwnedLicensedDurationStorage CostBulkOn DemandPerishesFortifiesRivalrousElasticSpecificMonopolyServiceHardwareAdditiveCROSS-RING INTERACTIONTraining Data LicensingA publisher licenses a training corpus to an AI lab in bulk. Thedata fortifies — the trained model accumulates capability thatcompounds over time. But the licence is time-limited. Attermination, what happens to the fortified capability the modelhas absorbed? The licence almost certainly does not addressthis, because the drafter was thinking about the input (thecorpus), not the accumulated output (the trained capability).The termination clause says “delete the data.” The model weightsare not “the data.” This is where most training-data licencesquietly transfer far more value than the headline fee suggests.