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# Copyrighted Content
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Copyright Compliance in Agentic Systems
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> **Copyrighted Content Risks**<br/>
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It is important to ensure that content generated by agentic systems respects intellectual property rights and avoids the unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Copyright compliance is essential not only for legal and ethical reasons but also to protect users and organizations from liability and reputational risk.
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Guardrails provides the `copyright` function to detect if any licenses are present in a given piece of text, to protect against exactly this.
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## copyright <spanclass="detector-badge"></span>
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Detects copyrighted text material if it isin`data`and returns the detected licenses.
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Secure images given to, or produced by, your agentic system.
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Secure images given to, or produced by your agentic system.
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At the core of computer vision agents is the ability to perceive their environment through images, typically by taking screenshots to assess the current state. This visual perception allows agents to understand interfaces, identify interactive elements, and make decisions based on what they "see."
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The `ocr` function is a <span class="parser-badge" size-mod="small"></span> so it returns the data found from parsing its content; in this case,any text present in an image will be extracted. The extracted text can then be used for further detection, for example detecting a prompt injection in an image, like the example below.
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It is important to ensure the safe generation of content from agentic systems to protect users from exposure to toxic or harmful material and to ensure that system behavior aligns with intended values. Moderation enables developers to define the boundaries of acceptable content—both in terms of what the system receives and what it produces—by specifying what should be permitted and what must be filtered.
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By implementing moderation guardrails, you can shape the behavior of agentic systems in a way that is predictable, value-aligned, and resilient to misuse.
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