Add Creator Use Grant; adopt Higgs TTS 3 naming (#23)

- Add Creator Use Grant; adopt Higgs TTS 3 naming (80ba6ce9d94d2eaeb34a16595db02ef2eb0b9ccf)


Co-authored-by: Alex Smola <smola@users.noreply.huggingface.co>

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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-BOSON HIGGS AUDIO v3 RESEARCH AND NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSE AGREEMENT
+BOSON HIGGS TTS 3 RESEARCH AND NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSE AGREEMENT
 
-Last Updated: May 21, 2026
+Last Updated: July 8, 2026
 
 I. INTRODUCTION
 
 This License Agreement (the "Agreement") is entered into by and between Licensee (as defined below) and Boson AI USA, Inc. ("Boson", "we", or "us"). This Agreement governs Your use, reproduction, distribution, and modification of the Higgs Materials.
 
-This Agreement is intended to allow Research and Non-Commercial use of the Higgs Materials free of charge. Any Commercial use of the Higgs Materials requires a separate written license from Boson. For clarity, this Agreement is a research and non-commercial source-available model license and is not an open source license.
+This Agreement is intended to allow Research and Non-Commercial use of the Higgs Materials free of charge. Any Commercial use of the Higgs Materials requires a separate written license from Boson. As a limited exception, Boson also grants digital creators a free, royalty-free license to create and publish creative content using the Higgs Materials, including monetized creative content, subject to an attribution requirement, as set forth in Section II-A (Creator Use Grant). For clarity, this Agreement is a research and non-commercial source-available model license and is not an open source license.
 
 The Higgs Materials may incorporate third-party components made available under their own open source licenses. Your obligations under those third-party licenses (including, where applicable, the retention of upstream copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices) are addressed in a separate "NOTICE" file accompanying the Higgs Materials and are in addition to Your obligations under this Agreement. This Agreement governs the Higgs Materials and any Derivative Work as a whole.
 
@@ -20,11 +20,41 @@ Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Boson grants You a non-exclusive, worldw
 
 "Non-Commercial Purpose" means any purpose other than a Research Purpose that is not primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation, such as personal use (i.e., hobbyist projects) or short-term evaluation and testing.
 
+II-A. CREATOR USE GRANT (FREE FOR DIGITAL CREATORS)
+
+In addition to the license in Section II, and notwithstanding Section III, Boson grants Digital Creators a non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, royalty-free, limited license (terminable as set forth in Section IV(h)) under Boson's intellectual property rights embodied in the Higgs Materials to use the Higgs Materials to create, reproduce, publish, distribute, and monetize Creator Content, subject to the terms of this Agreement (including the Use Restrictions in Section IV(b) and the Acceptable Use Policy) and to the Creator Acknowledgment requirement in Section II-A(b).
+
+  a. What is covered. This grant covers using the Higgs Materials to generate audio for creative works — including podcasts, videos, audiobooks, social media posts, and similar creative content — and publishing and monetizing that content on channels You own or control, whether personal or commercial, including ad-supported, sponsored, subscription, or otherwise monetized creator channels.
+
+  b. Creator Acknowledgment (the one requirement). For any Creator Content You publish under this grant, You must acknowledge Boson AI's Higgs Audio in at least one of the following ways:
+
+     (i)  In the audio itself — for example, "This audio was created with Boson AI's Higgs Audio."; or
+
+     (ii) In the accompanying text, displayed prominently together with the content — such as the post body, video description, episode description, or show notes. The acknowledgment must be clearly visible to the audience and must not be hidden or buried at the bottom of the credits or annotations.
+
+     A suggested acknowledgment string is:
+
+        "This audio was created with Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio"
+
+     For Creator Content published under this grant, providing this Creator Acknowledgment satisfies Your attribution obligations under Section IV(a) with respect to that Creator Content. The naming and no-endorsement limitations in Sections IV(a)(iv) and IV(d)(i) continue to apply.
+
+  c. What this grant does not cover. This grant covers creating and publishing Creator Content. It does not cover, and a separate written commercial license from Boson is required for, each of the following:
+
+     (i)   hosting, serving, or otherwise making the Higgs Materials available to others, whether via an API, SaaS offering, plug-in, hosted tool, or end-user application;
+
+     (ii)  redistributing, reselling, sublicensing, or otherwise distributing the Higgs Materials or any Derivative Work, or fine-tuning, distilling, or otherwise creating a Derivative Work for resale or distribution; and
+
+     (iii) embedding or integrating the Higgs Materials in a product, application, or service made available to third parties (including a text-to-speech, voice-generation, dubbing, or content-creation product or service).
+
+     For these uses, please contact Boson at https://boson.ai or contact@boson.ai for a commercial license.
+
+  d. Relationship to other terms. This grant is a limited exception to Section III and does not otherwise expand Your rights. All other terms of this Agreement apply to Your use of the Higgs Materials and Your Creator Content, including the Use Restrictions in Section IV(b) (for example, the prohibitions on non-consensual voice cloning and impersonation, deceptive or fraudulent use, and undisclosed synthetic content where disclosure is required), the representations and warranties in Section IV(c), and the disclaimers and limitations of liability in Sections IV(f) and IV(g). Nothing in this grant relieves You of any consent, disclosure, or labeling obligation under Section IV(b) or applicable law. If any Creator Content or related use falls outside the scope of this grant, it remains subject to Section III and may require a separate commercial license.
+
 III. COMMERCIAL USE
 
-Any use of the Higgs Materials, Derivative Works, or any output generated using the foregoing for a Commercial Purpose requires a separate written license agreement from Boson. No commercial rights are granted under this Agreement.
+Except as expressly permitted under Section II-A (Creator Use Grant), any use of the Higgs Materials, Derivative Works, or any output generated using the foregoing for a Commercial Purpose requires a separate written license agreement from Boson. No commercial rights are granted under this Agreement except as expressly set forth in Section II-A.
 
-"Commercial Purpose" means any purpose that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation to You or others, including but not limited to: (i) production use, hosted use (including via an API, SaaS offering, plug-in, or end-user application), or any use made available to end users outside Your organization; (ii) any use in connection with a product or service for which You charge a fee, sell advertising, or otherwise generate revenue, whether directly or indirectly; (iii) Your or Your Affiliate's internal business or organizational operations beyond limited evaluation as permitted below; and (iv) any use described in Section IV(b)(i) (model training, fine-tuning, distillation, or improvement of non-Boson models), which is independently prohibited by that section absent a separate written agreement with Boson.
+"Commercial Purpose" means any purpose that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation to You or others, including but not limited to: (i) production use, hosted use (including via an API, SaaS offering, plug-in, or end-user application), or any use made available to end users outside Your organization; (ii) any use in connection with a product or service for which You charge a fee, sell advertising, or otherwise generate revenue, whether directly or indirectly; (iii) Your or Your Affiliate's internal business or organizational operations beyond limited evaluation as permitted below; and (iv) any use described in Section IV(b)(i) (model training, fine-tuning, distillation, or improvement of non-Boson models), which is independently prohibited by that section absent a separate written agreement with Boson. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the creation, publication, and monetization of Creator Content by a Digital Creator is permitted without a separate commercial license to the extent expressly authorized by, and in compliance with, Section II-A.
 
 For clarity, limited internal evaluation, benchmarking, security testing, or red-teaming of the Higgs Materials by a for-profit entity is permitted as a Research Purpose or Non-Commercial Purpose, provided that such use is (a) not deployed in production, (b) not made available to end users or customers, (c) not used to generate revenue, and (d) not used to train, fine-tune, distill, or improve any non-Boson model. Your status as a for-profit entity (including the amount of funding You have raised or revenue You have generated) does not, by itself, make Your use a Commercial Purpose.
 
@@ -47,15 +77,17 @@ If You distribute or make available the Higgs Materials or any Derivative Work t
 
   (ii)  retain the following attribution notice within a "NOTICE" text file distributed as part of such copies:
 
-        "Boson Higgs Audio v3 is licensed under the Boson Higgs Audio v3 Research and Non-Commercial License, Copyright (c) Boson AI USA, Inc. All Rights Reserved.";
+        "Boson Higgs TTS 3 is licensed under the Boson Higgs TTS 3 Research and Non-Commercial License, Copyright (c) Boson AI USA, Inc. All Rights Reserved.";
 
   (iii) for public-facing applications or demonstrations, make a reasonable attribution such as:
 
-        "Built with Higgs Audio v3 licensed from Boson AI USA, Inc.";
+        "Built with Higgs TTS 3 licensed from Boson AI USA, Inc.";
 
         For repositories, model cards, papers, reports, or technical documentation, attribution in the README, model card, NOTICE file, or equivalent documentation is sufficient; and
 
-  (iv)  if You create, modify, fine-tune, distill, or otherwise improve any AI model or software using the Higgs Materials and distribute or make it available, You shall state in the model card, documentation, repository description, and distribution page that the model or software is "Derived from Higgs Audio v3, licensed from Boson AI USA, Inc." You shall not use "Higgs Audio v3" (or any confusingly similar name, including without limitation "Higgs Audio 4", "Higgs Pro", or "Boson Audio") as the leading or primary element of Your model or software name, or otherwise in a manner that suggests official status, endorsement by, affiliation with, or successor status to Boson.
+  (iv)  if You create, modify, fine-tune, distill, or otherwise improve any AI model or software using the Higgs Materials and distribute or make it available, You shall state in the model card, documentation, repository description, and distribution page that the model or software is "Derived from Higgs TTS 3, licensed from Boson AI USA, Inc." You shall not use "Higgs TTS 3" (or any confusingly similar name, including without limitation "Higgs TTS 4", "Higgs Pro", or "Boson TTS") as the leading or primary element of Your model or software name, or otherwise in a manner that suggests official status, endorsement by, affiliation with, or successor status to Boson.
+
+For clarity, a Digital Creator publishing Creator Content under Section II-A satisfies its attribution obligations by providing the Creator Acknowledgment described in Section II-A(b), and is not required to reproduce the NOTICE file or Agreement alongside individual items of published Creator Content.
 
 If You create a Derivative Work, You may add Your own attribution notices to the "NOTICE" text file, provided You clearly indicate which attributions apply to the Higgs Materials and state that You changed the Higgs Materials and how You modified them.
 
@@ -65,7 +97,7 @@ Your use of the Higgs Materials and any Derivative Work, including any output or
 
 You will not, and will not permit any third party to:
 
-  (i)    use the Higgs Materials, Derivative Works, or any output or results thereof to create, train, fine-tune, distill, or improve any foundational generative AI model, large language model, audio model, speech model, or other machine-learning model that is intended to generate, synthesize, clone, transform, or materially improve speech, audio, language, or multimodal generation capabilities (excluding Higgs Audio v3 itself and Derivative Works thereof for permitted purposes), unless expressly authorized in a separate written agreement with Boson. For clarity, this restriction does not prohibit the creation or use of non-generative classifiers, evaluators, safety filters, watermark or provenance detectors, or benchmark tools solely for permitted Research or Non-Commercial Purposes, provided that (a) they are not used, directly or indirectly, to train, fine-tune, distill, or improve any non-Boson generative model, and (b) they are not designed or intended to enable, accelerate, or contribute to the development of any audio, speech, language, or multimodal generation system by You or any third party;
+  (i)    use the Higgs Materials, Derivative Works, or any output or results thereof to create, train, fine-tune, distill, or improve any foundational generative AI model, large language model, audio model, speech model, or other machine-learning model that is intended to generate, synthesize, clone, transform, or materially improve speech, audio, language, or multimodal generation capabilities (excluding Higgs TTS 3 itself and Derivative Works thereof for permitted purposes), unless expressly authorized in a separate written agreement with Boson. For clarity, this restriction does not prohibit the creation or use of non-generative classifiers, evaluators, safety filters, watermark or provenance detectors, or benchmark tools solely for permitted Research or Non-Commercial Purposes, provided that (a) they are not used, directly or indirectly, to train, fine-tune, distill, or improve any non-Boson generative model, and (b) they are not designed or intended to enable, accelerate, or contribute to the development of any audio, speech, language, or multimodal generation system by You or any third party;
 
   (ii)   use the Higgs Materials or any output to generate audio that impersonates, clones, simulates, or imitates any real person (including their voice, name, likeness, or persona) without that person's explicit, verifiable consent, which may include written or legally valid electronic consent. You may not submit or use reference audio, speaker embeddings, voice prompts, or other materials for voice cloning or voice adaptation unless You have all necessary rights, licenses, and consents for such use. For public-facing, commercial, telephony, political, endorsement, or other high-risk uses, You must maintain records sufficient to demonstrate such consent and produce them on Boson's reasonable request;
 
@@ -85,7 +117,7 @@ You will not, and will not permit any third party to:
 
   (x)    bring any legal action, claim, charge, or demand challenging Boson's ownership of, or rights in, the Higgs Materials.
 
-No Third-Party Rights Granted. This Agreement does not grant You any rights to use, reproduce, clone, simulate, imitate, or otherwise exploit any third-party voice, likeness, name, image, persona, performance, recording, copyrighted work, or other protected content. You are solely responsible for obtaining all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions required for any reference audio, speaker embedding, prompt, input, output, and any downstream use thereof. Nothing in the Higgs Materials or any output thereof shall be construed as a representation or warranty that any voice, likeness, recording, copyrighted work, or other content embedded in or generated by the Higgs Materials is cleared for Your intended use.
+No Third-Party Rights Granted. This Agreement does not grant You any rights to use, reproduce, clone, simulate, imitate, or otherwise exploit any third-party voice, likeness, name, image, persona, performance, recording, copyrighted work, or other protected content. You are solely responsible for obtaining all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions required for any reference audio, speaker embedding, prompt, input, output, and any downstream use thereof. Nothing in the Higgs Materials or any output thereof shall be construed as a representation or warranty that any voice, likeness, recording, copyrighted work, or other content embedded in or generated by the Higgs Materials is cleared for Your intended use. This paragraph applies to Creator Content published under Section II-A to the same extent as to any other use.
 
 c. Representations and Warranties.
 
@@ -93,7 +125,7 @@ You represent and warrant that: (i) You are of the age required by applicable la
 
 d. Intellectual Property.
 
-  (i)   Trademark License. No trademark licenses are granted under this Agreement. Neither Boson nor Licensee may use any name or mark owned by, or associated with, the other party or any of its Affiliates, except as required to comply with Section IV(a). Boson hereby grants You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use "Higgs Audio v3" (the "Mark") solely as a descriptive reference required to comply with the attribution and notice obligations in Sections IV(a)(ii)-(iv), and not as the leading or primary name of any product, model, or service. All goodwill arising out of Your use of the Mark inures to the benefit of Boson.
+  (i)   Trademark License. No trademark licenses are granted under this Agreement. Neither Boson nor Licensee may use any name or mark owned by, or associated with, the other party or any of its Affiliates, except as required to comply with Section IV(a) or as expressly permitted for the Creator Acknowledgment in Section II-A(b). Boson hereby grants You a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use "Higgs TTS 3" and "Boson AI's Higgs Audio" (the "Mark") solely as a descriptive reference required to comply with the attribution and notice obligations in Sections IV(a)(ii)-(iv) and the Creator Acknowledgment in Section II-A(b), and not as the leading or primary name of any product, model, or service. All goodwill arising out of Your use of the Mark inures to the benefit of Boson.
 
   (ii)  Ownership of Derivative Works. Subject to Boson's ownership of the Higgs Materials and any Derivative Works made by or for Boson, and subject to the restrictions in this Agreement, as between You and Boson, You are the owner of any Derivative Works You create.
 
@@ -105,7 +137,7 @@ d. Intellectual Property.
 
 e. Audit and Reporting.
 
-This Section IV(e) applies only to Licensees that (i) distribute or make available the Higgs Materials or any Derivative Work to third parties, (ii) make the Higgs Materials or any Derivative Work available as part of a hosted demonstration, service, or product, or (iii) Boson reasonably believes are using the Higgs Materials for a Commercial Purpose without a commercial license. It does not apply to individual hobbyist or personal Non-Commercial use.
+This Section IV(e) applies only to Licensees that (i) distribute or make available the Higgs Materials or any Derivative Work to third parties, (ii) make the Higgs Materials or any Derivative Work available as part of a hosted demonstration, service, or product, or (iii) Boson reasonably believes are using the Higgs Materials for a Commercial Purpose without a commercial license. It does not apply to individual hobbyist or personal Non-Commercial use, or to a Digital Creator's creation and publication of Creator Content within the scope of Section II-A.
 
 For Licensees within the scope above, Boson reserves the right, no more than once per calendar year and upon reasonable prior written notice, to request a written report describing Your use of the Higgs Materials and Derivative Works, including the purposes of such use and the approximate number of users or end users (if any). You shall respond to any such request within thirty (30) days. If, following such request, Boson reasonably believes You are using the Higgs Materials for a Commercial Purpose without a commercial license, Boson may require You to either (i) cease such use, or (ii) enter into a commercial license on then-current terms.
 
@@ -123,7 +155,7 @@ The term of this Agreement commences upon Your acceptance of this Agreement or f
 
 Boson may, at any time, discontinue making the Higgs Materials available prospectively (including by removing them from distribution channels), but such prospective discontinuation does not, by itself, terminate the rights already granted to Licensees who are then in compliance with this Agreement.
 
-Upon termination of this Agreement, You shall (i) immediately cease all use of the Higgs Materials and Derivative Works, (ii) delete all copies of the Higgs Materials and Derivative Works from any computer, server, or storage medium under Your control, and (iii) certify such deletion in writing to Boson upon request. Sections III, IV(a)(ii), IV(b) (with respect to any prior use, any outputs generated before termination, and the No Third-Party Rights Granted paragraph), IV(c), IV(d), IV(f), IV(g), IV(h), and IV(i) shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
+Upon termination of this Agreement, You shall (i) immediately cease all use of the Higgs Materials and Derivative Works, (ii) delete all copies of the Higgs Materials and Derivative Works from any computer, server, or storage medium under Your control, and (iii) certify such deletion in writing to Boson upon request. Sections III, IV(a)(ii), IV(b) (with respect to any prior use, any outputs generated before termination, and the No Third-Party Rights Granted paragraph), IV(c), IV(d), IV(f), IV(g), IV(h), and IV(i) shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement. For clarity, termination does not require a Digital Creator to remove or take down Creator Content that was published in compliance with Section II-A before the effective date of termination, but the Digital Creator shall make no further use of the Higgs Materials after termination.
 
 i. Governing Law and Jurisdiction.
 
@@ -139,25 +171,31 @@ V. DEFINITIONS
 
 "Affiliate" means, with respect to a party, any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with that party, where "control" means direct or indirect ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting interests of the subject entity.
 
-"Agreement" means this Boson Higgs Audio v3 Research and Non-Commercial License Agreement, including the incorporated Acceptable Use Policy.
+"Agreement" means this Boson Higgs TTS 3 Research and Non-Commercial License Agreement, including the incorporated Acceptable Use Policy.
 
 "Boson" or "we" or "us" means Boson AI USA, Inc.
 
 "Commercial Purpose" — see Section III.
 
+"Creator Acknowledgment" — see Section II-A(b).
+
+"Creator Content" means creative audio or audiovisual works — such as podcasts, videos, audiobooks, and social-media posts — that a Digital Creator creates using the Higgs Materials and publishes on channels the Digital Creator owns or controls, whether monetized or not. Creator Content does not include any model, product, application, service, API, plug-in, or hosted tool that incorporates or exposes the Higgs Materials to third parties, nor the distribution or resale of the Higgs Materials or any Derivative Work.
+
 "Derivative Work" means (a) any derivative work of the Higgs Materials as recognized under U.S. copyright law and (b) any modification to a Model, and any other model created or trained based on or derived from a Model or a Model's outputs, including without limitation fine-tuned models, distilled models, quantized models, converted or format-transformed models, and low-rank adaptation ("LoRA") weights. For clarity, (i) the outputs of a Model are not themselves Derivative Works; (ii) evaluation reports, benchmark results, academic papers, and other non-model analytical materials created from outputs are not Derivative Works, but in each case remain subject to the use restrictions in this Agreement; and (iii) quantized, converted, format-transformed, or optimized versions of a Model are Derivative Works and may be distributed only under this Agreement and only for a Research Purpose or Non-Commercial Purpose.
 
+"Digital Creator" means an individual or entity that creates Creator Content using the Higgs Materials and publishes it on channels it owns or controls, whether or not the Creator Content is monetized. An entity acts as a Digital Creator only with respect to Creator Content published on its own channels; making the Higgs Materials, or any tool or service that incorporates them, available to third parties is not covered by Section II-A.
+
 "Documentation" means any specifications, manuals, technical reports, model cards, and other written materials provided by Boson related to the Higgs Materials.
 
-"Higgs Audio v3" means the Boson Higgs Audio v3 foundational audio language model, including model architecture, trained model weights, inference code, training code, fine-tuning code, audio tokenizer, and related elements, in each case as developed by Boson and made available at https://github.com/boson-ai/higgs-audio, https://huggingface.co/bosonai/, or otherwise.
+"Higgs Materials" means, collectively, Higgs TTS 3, the Documentation, and any other materials made available by Boson under this Agreement.
 
-"Higgs Materials" means, collectively, Higgs Audio v3, the Documentation, and any other materials made available by Boson under this Agreement.
+"Higgs TTS 3" means the Boson Higgs TTS 3 foundational audio language model (also referred to as "Higgs Audio v3"), including model architecture, trained model weights, inference code, training code, fine-tuning code, audio tokenizer, and related elements, in each case as developed by Boson and made available at https://github.com/boson-ai/higgs-audio, https://huggingface.co/bosonai/, or otherwise.
 
 "Licensee" or "You" or "Your" means the individual or entity exercising rights under this Agreement.
 
 "Mark" — see Section IV(d)(i).
 
-"Model" means Higgs Audio v3 and any other machine-learning model included in the Higgs Materials.
+"Model" means Higgs TTS 3 and any other machine-learning model included in the Higgs Materials.
 
 "Non-Commercial Purpose" — see Section II.
 

README.md

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 ---
 license: other
-license_name: boson-higgs-audio-v3-research-and-non-commercial-license
+license_name: boson-higgs-tts-3-research-and-non-commercial-license
 license_link: LICENSE
 language:
   - af
@@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ library_name: transformers
 Higgs TTS 3 is built for voice chat: it **speaks, not just reads**. It turns model responses into expressive conversational speech across **100+ languages**, with **zero-shot voice cloning** and **inline control** over emotion, style, prosody, pauses, and sound effects.
 
 > [!TIP]
-> Released for research and non-commercial use under the **Boson Higgs TTS 3 Research and Non-Commercial License**. Production, hosted APIs, or revenue-generating use requires a separate commercial license. Prohibited: voice cloning without consent, impersonation, fraud, election deception, biometric surveillance, or any unlawful use.
+> Released for research and non-commercial use under the **Boson Higgs TTS 3 Research and Non-Commercial License**. Production, hosted APIs, embedding in a product/service, or reselling the model requires a separate commercial license. Prohibited: voice cloning without consent, impersonation, fraud, election deception, biometric surveillance, or any unlawful use.
+
+> [!TIP]
+> **Free for digital creators — including monetized content.** Under the license's **Creator Use Grant**, creators may use Higgs TTS 3 to make and monetize podcasts, videos, and social posts for free. The one requirement is to credit *Boson AI's Higgs Audio* — either in the audio or prominently in the accompanying text (e.g., the video description or show notes). Suggested credit: *"This audio was created with Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio"*. See the [Creator Use](#creator-use-free-for-digital-creators) section below.
 
 ![Higgs TTS 3 Architecture](./assets/model_architecture.png)
 
@@ -546,6 +549,28 @@ For zero-ops deployment, use the [**Boson AI API**](https://docs.boson.ai/models
 }
 ```
 
+## Creator Use (Free for Digital Creators)
+
+In addition to research and non-commercial use, the license includes a **Creator Use Grant** that lets **digital creators** use Higgs TTS 3 to produce creative content **for free — including monetized content**.
+
+**What's covered**
+
+- Podcasts, videos, audiobooks, social media posts, and similar creative works
+- Personal *and* commercial/monetized creator channels (ad-supported, sponsored, subscription, etc.)
+
+**The one requirement: acknowledge Boson AI's Higgs Audio.** The acknowledgment must appear in **at least one** of the following ways:
+
+- **In the audio** — e.g. *"This audio was created with Boson AI's Higgs Audio."*
+- **In the accompanying text**, displayed prominently — e.g. in the post body, video description, or show notes. It must be clearly visible and **not** hidden at the bottom of the credits or annotations.
+
+Suggested credit string:
+
+> This audio was created with Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio
+
+**Still requires a separate commercial license.** The Creator Use Grant covers *creating content* with the model. It does **not** cover hosting the model behind an API or as a service, redistributing/reselling/fine-tuning the model for resale, or embedding the model in a product or application. For these uses, [contact us](https://www.boson.ai) for a commercial license.
+
+The Creator Use Grant does not change the [use restrictions](#license) — no non-consensual voice cloning or impersonation, no fraud or deception, and AI-generated audio must be disclosed where required. Full terms are in Section II-A of the [LICENSE](./LICENSE).
+
 ## License
 
-Boson Higgs TTS 3 Research and Non-Commercial License — see [LICENSE](./LICENSE).
+Boson Higgs TTS 3 Research and Non-Commercial License — see [LICENSE](./LICENSE). Includes a **Creator Use Grant** (free monetized creator use with attribution; see [Creator Use](#creator-use-free-for-digital-creators) above).