ORM-2.2
A side business discovering you are in breach, under ORM 2.2
A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work. You realise an obligation was missed, and it may have been missed for some time. This resolves to the Root tier.
Tier
Owed
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections in play
1.7, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 2.1, 2.2
Who and what
The situation being resolved.
Actor
A side business
A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work.
under 100k USD
Situation
Discovering you are in breach
You realise an obligation was missed, and it may have been missed for some time.
Rulings
3 questions resolved against the text.
Which tier applies?
Root. A sole trader or small partnership earning under six figures from the work. Below $20,000,000 in trailing revenue, or within an exempt category, no Canopy royalty applies. Sections 4, 6, 8, and 10 still bind every Licensee.
Sections 1.7, 2.1, 2.2
Is anything owed?
Nothing. No fee, no report, no filing.
Sections 2.1
What happens on breach?
Thirty days to cure from written notice, under Section 10.1. Reinstatement is available on curing and paying what would have been owed, with interest, unless you have already had rights terminated for the same Work within twenty-four months. Downstream recipients who remain compliant are unaffected by Section 10.3.
Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Cautions
What this situation gets wrong most often.
Revenue is measured across entities under common control, per Section 1.4. A parent company above the threshold makes its subsidiary a Canopy Licensee regardless of that subsidiary's own turnover.
Section 8.3 forbids imposing a user ceiling, a regional exclusion, or an output-training restriction downstream where this licence imposes none. That prohibition is the point of the instrument.
Same actor
Other situations for this party.
Non-normative. Where this and the licence text disagree, the licence text applies.