Creator Rights Advisor
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Free, no account required. Use it to understand licensing, metadata health, AI permissions, file fingerprints, missing fields, and conflicts before you publish anything.
SigilForge Rights
Your work. Your terms.
A record people can check.
Make your licensing and AI-use preferences clear. The free Advisor helps you compare options and draft a rights record before you decide whether to publish it.
Founders Price: $1.99 one time. Create a permanent public rights record, timestamped verification page, QR verification link, version history, and downloadable Creator Dossier when you choose to preserve the draft in the Registry.
The free Advisor helps you understand what to do before you pay. A record documents your stated terms and supporting evidence; it does not replace copyright registration or legal advice.
Two related products
Advisor first. Registry when permanence matters.
Creator Rights Registry
$1.99 Founders
Use an account when you want durable preservation: permanent hosted record, timestamped public verification page, Registry ID, QR verification, version history, record management, and future updates.
Creator Dossier
Exportable package
A professional evidence package generated from a preserved record for publisher review, open-source release support, dispute intake, procurement, or archival delivery.
Durable provenance
The Registry preserves publication metadata, declared rights, SPDX license, AI permissions, hashes, evidence labels, verification state, public URLs, and version history over time.
Product flow
Create something. Then ask the Advisor.
Create something → open Creator Rights Advisor for free → import artifact or source → extract available evidence → recommend an SPDX license → explain licensing tradeoffs → generate a draft Creator Rights Record → review missing or conflicting information → optionally sign in and pay the $1.99 Founders price to preserve it → create permanent Creator Rights Record → generate Creator Dossier.
License guidance
Not sure which license fits your project?
Answer a few plain-language questions and the picker explains your options, recommends an appropriate SPDX license or custom terms, and shows what alternatives would change. That Advisor guidance is useful even if you never publish a Creator Rights Record.
Ask creators' questions
The picker starts with goals creators recognize: commercial use, attribution, forks, open modifications, reciprocal sharing, AI training, and when separate permission should be required.
Explain tradeoffs
A recommendation can say why MPL, MIT, Apache, AGPL, Creative Commons, proprietary, or custom terms fit better, and what a different choice would change downstream.
Keep the creator in control
The software can guide, compare, and prefill. The creator still reviews the evidence, chooses the final license, and decides whether to publish the record.
Artifact first
Give it the work. Review what it found.
Creator Rights is designed for working creators, not licensing analysts. The public front door is a source or file, and the detailed form becomes the advanced editor after import.
Provide a source
One source field accepts supported URLs or identifiers. Current external sources include GitHub, npm, PyPI, DOI/Crossref, ISBN/Open Library, Steam, and itch.io.
Upload a file
Local file import supports EPUB, PDF and Office documents, Blender and 3D files, Unity assets, images, audio, video, datasets, source files, and LICENSE-like files.
Reuse the fingerprint
Uploaded files are fingerprinted with SHA-256 in the browser. The same uploaded file and calculated hash are reused later in the workflow; there is no second required upload.
Draft evidence
Imported values are reviewed, not worshipped.
Artifact first. Draft, not fact. Agreement increases confidence. Disagreement lowers confidence. Conflict never resolves silently.
Evidence is labeled
Imported fields keep their source, confidence, review status, and candidate values so the creator can see what was found and what still needs judgment.
Agreement helps
When sources match, the draft can mark that agreement and raise confidence without pretending the machine made a legal determination.
Conflict requires review
If license sources disagree, every candidate is preserved and displayed. No source wins silently; the creator must choose the governing license or mark the record as custom.
License composition
Copyright license first. SFR alongside it.
Assistive picker
The license picker asks plain-language questions about the creator's goals, narrows appropriate SPDX options or recommends custom terms when needed, and explains why each license is suggested. It is not an automatic legal decision.
Creator decides
Imported repository or package metadata may prefill or suggest a license, but the creator can override the draft after review. When evidence conflicts, the picker enters a review state instead of silently selecting a winner.
Traceable recommendation
Every recommendation should be explainable and traceable to the creator's answers, the selected work type, imported evidence, or preserved conflict candidates.
Primary license
The selected SPDX or copyright license remains the work's license: MIT, Apache, MPL, Creative Commons, proprietary, or another supported option.
SFR framework
The SigilForge Rights Framework layers provenance, verification state, AI permissions, evidence semantics, and machine-readable rights metadata on top of the chosen license. It does not replace or modify that license.
Creator Dossier
After a record exists, the account portal can export a Creator Dossier package for publisher review, open-source release support, dispute intake, or archive delivery.
Rights registry
Use the simple record index.
The public registry lives at /registry/. Search by title, work type, category, availability, licensing terms, and AI-use position, then open the permanent record or JSON metadata from one place. Registry value is the durable canonical record that preserves and versions the evidence package over time.
Public registry
Canonical Index
One searchable public route for Creator Rights Records and machine-readable metadata.
Individual records
Permanent URLs
Each record remains available at /rights/<record-slug>/ with a matching JSON route.
Advisor workflow
Public App
Source import, metadata extraction, license recommendation, licensing tradeoffs, AI permissions guidance, rights checklist, metadata health, SHA-256 generation, and draft review are available without login.
AI permissions
Say the quiet rights terms clearly.
Training
Creators can mark training, foundation-model pretraining, fine-tuning, embeddings, retrieval, generation, dataset redistribution, research use, and commercial use separately.
License required
Explicit permission values avoid the fog of a simple yes-or-no checkbox. A record can say allowed, prohibited, license required, research only, case by case, custom terms, or not specified.
Human review
The system generates a plain-language AI-use summary, but the creator must review and approve it before publication.
Ecosystem & standards integration
Related Creator Resources
Creator Rights Records complement existing legal registries, open licensing standards, and global distribution channels. Depending on your goals, these resources may also be useful:
Copyright & Legal Registration
U.S. Copyright Office (official eCO registration) and WIPO for international intellectual property frameworks.
Creative Licensing Open Terms
Creative Commons (CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC0), SPDX License List, and Open Source Initiative.
Persistent Identifiers Global IDs
ISBN Agencies (books), DOI Foundation (research), ORCID (researchers), and ISNI (creators).
Publishing & Distribution Channels
IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, itch.io, Steamworks, and GitHub provenance.
Publication verification FAQ
Questions creators already ask.
Is this a subscription?
No. Each Creator Rights Record is covered by a one-time $1.99 Founders lifetime Registry license. Your purchase includes permanent hosting of the record, public verification, Creator Dossier generation, and future access to that record. There are no recurring fees required to keep an existing record active.
Do I always control my records?
Yes. Every Creator Rights Record can be exported at any time as a self-contained Creator Dossier, including JSON metadata, evidence manifests, SHA-256 fingerprints, and public rights declarations. Your evidence remains under your control regardless of platform hosting.
Does a Creator Rights Record replace copyright registration?
No. Creator Rights Records complement existing legal, licensing, and publishing systems. Depending on your jurisdiction and goals, you may also wish to register copyright with official authorities (such as the U.S. Copyright Office), obtain an ISBN or DOI, or publish through established distribution platforms.
Does a record prove legal ownership?
No. It documents a declared rights position, publication metadata, version history, and evidence labels. Legal ownership can depend on facts and law beyond this record.
How do I prove I published first?
A public record can document the declared publication date, recorded version, rights holder, and later version history. It is provenance evidence, not a court ruling.
How do I tell AI systems not to train on my content?
The record publishes AI training permissions, licensing requirements, and machine-readable metadata so crawlers, licensing teams, and reviewers can read the creator's declared policy.
Can I record books, games, artwork, PDFs, or software releases?
Yes, when you have authority to create the record. The intake accepts supported URLs and identifiers, plus local files such as EPUB, PDF, Office documents, Blender and 3D files, Unity assets, images, audio, video, datasets, source files, and LICENSE-like files.
Does imported metadata verify ownership?
No. Imported values create a draft, not a verified rights claim. GitHub ownership, package ownership, usernames, and publication metadata are evidence to review; they are not proof of authorship or rights ownership.
What are AI permissions?
AI permissions describe the creator's declared position for training, fine-tuning, embeddings, retrieval, generation, dataset redistribution, research use, and commercial AI licensing.
What if AI scraped my website or work?
A record cannot undo scraping, but it can publish a clear creator rights declaration, AI usage policy, licensing route, and timestamped publication metadata for future reference.
Why would this matter years later?
If questions arise regarding publication history, licensing, AI permissions, or provenance, the Creator Rights Record preserves a contemporaneous record of what was declared, what evidence supported those declarations, and how the record evolved over time. It does not guarantee legal outcomes.
Do I need an account to begin?
No. The Creator Rights Advisor is free and public. An account is only needed when you choose to preserve or publish a permanent Registry record and manage it over time.
Why include a SHA-256 hash?
A SHA-256 hash can connect a specific file fingerprint to the publication record. Uploaded files are fingerprinted in the browser and the same calculated hash is reused later in the workflow. It does not prove authorship by itself.
Is SFR the copyright license?
No. The selected SPDX or copyright license remains separate. The SigilForge Rights Framework adds provenance, verification state, AI permissions, evidence semantics, and machine-readable rights metadata. It does not replace or modify the selected license.
Does the license picker make the legal decision for me?
No. The picker is assistive. It asks plain-language questions, narrows likely SPDX licenses or recommends custom terms, explains the suggestion, and leaves the final selection to the creator.
What does the QR link do?
The QR code points to the permanent public record URL so readers, licensors, crawlers, and archives can find the current publication record and machine-readable metadata.