# Licensing your data

URL: /products/data/licensing · Id: `page:products/data/licensing`

> What a data buyer may do with your records: use them, show them or resell them, and how each license is priced and delivered.

A data [Offer](/business/nouns/offer) sells access and rights together. Its `license` says what the buyer may do with the records, and the price should rise with each right it adds.

## Three licenses
| `license` | The buyer may | Typical buyer | Leaseline's price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `internal` | Use the records inside its own business and product, and show results derived from them | A property manager checking its own leases | A cent per lookup |
| `display` | Show the records themselves to its own users, with the attribution line | A listings site showing renewal dates beside each building | $3,000 a year |
| `redistribute` | Resell or pass on the records, in bulk or inside its product | A data broker or a lender's risk vendor | $12,000 a year |

Every license forbids rebuilding the [Dataset](/business/nouns/dataset) as a competing product. The terms appear on the Offer's page, in each buyer's [Agreement](/business/nouns/agreement), and in the response metadata of every call.

Default to `internal`. A buyer who needs more asks, and that conversation is how a one-cent customer becomes a $12,000 one.

## Attribution
`attribution` is the credit line a buyer shows wherever the records appear, such as `Renewal data from Leaseline`. It is required on `display` and `redistribute`, and it sends people back to you each time a record is shown.

## How each license is delivered
| Delivery | Fits | Priced |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lookup by API or MCP | `internal`, a key at a time | Per call, through the [Meter](/business/nouns/meter) |
| Bulk file in the [Portal](/business/nouns/portal), weekly or daily | `display` and `redistribute` | A yearly fee |
| Export to the buyer's warehouse | `redistribute` at volume | A yearly fee, or per record delivered |

A yearly license bills in advance, and its revenue is recognized month by month. A private Offer fits a buyer who wants its own terms: see [enterprise deals](/products/offers/enterprise).

## Your own sources come first
You can only grant rights you hold. A record drawn from another party's [Source](/business/nouns/source) carries that Source's terms, and a Dataset with any unlicensed Source cannot go [Live](/business/lifecycle/states/live). [Datasets](/products/data/datasets) covers provenance.

Takedowns run the same way for every license: a person who asks to be removed leaves the next delivery. Each `redistribute` buyer gets the removal in its next file and must apply it. [Handle a takedown](/workflows/processes/takedowns/handle-takedown) covers the steps.

## Next
- [License my data](/products/data/license-my-data) and [sell my data](/products/data/sell-my-data): the asks.
- [Data broker rules](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/data-broker): what applies when the records are about people.