Creator Rights Advisor

Understand what to do before you publish.

The Advisor is free and does not require an account. Start from a file, source URL, package, DOI, ISBN, Steam page, or itch.io page; review what was found; compare license tradeoffs; set AI permissions; and prepare a draft Creator Rights Record before deciding whether to preserve it.

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Artifact first. Draft, not fact. Agreement increases confidence. Disagreement lowers confidence. Conflict never resolves silently.

Free Advisor · Paid preservation

Founders price: $1.99 one time

You can build and review the draft here for free. Sign in and preserve only when you want a permanent public rights record, timestamped verification page, QR verification link, version history, and downloadable Creator Dossier.

Advisor intake

Import from artifact or source

Upload a file or paste a supported public URL or identifier to draft the record from source metadata. Imported data is a review queue, not a verified rights claim.

The Advisor is public and free. It can help you understand the next step without an account; signing in is only needed when you choose to preserve and manage a permanent Registry record.

Upload work fileOptional

The selected file stays in your browser. The form stores the SHA-256 hash and metadata, not the file bytes.

Supported files: EPUB, PDF, Office documents, Blender and 3D models, Unity assets, images, audio, video, datasets, source files, and license text.

Source URL or identifierOptional

Use one field for supported sources. For ambiguous package names, use prefixes such as npm:is-sorted or pypi:requests.

Supported sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI, DOI, ISBN, Steam, and itch.io.

1Work identity2Rights and publication3AI permissions4File verification5Review

Step 1

Work identity

Creator nameRequired

The person or group credited as creator in this declaration. This is a declaration, not legal proof.

Public display nameRequired

The name shown publicly on the record. It may be a pen name, studio name, or publisher-facing name.

Rights-holder nameRequired

The creator, company, publisher, studio, or other legal rights holder for this declaration.

Work titleRequired

The title of the work or product this record describes.

SlugOptional

The slug becomes part of the permanent public URL. Use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. Example: the-anchor-and-the-glitch

Public URL preview appears after you enter a title.Your role for this workOptional

Your role describes why this account is making the declaration. It does not independently prove ownership.

Work typeRequired

Choose the closest kind of work so buyers and AI teams can filter records later.

CategoryOptional

Category adds a second filter such as fiction, software, legal, or research.

DescriptionRequired

Plain-language description shown on the draft and public record.

Step 2

Rights and publication

AvailabilityOptional

Availability tells visitors whether licensing is open, restricted, scheduled, or archival.

Public means the work is released and the record can be discovered publicly.Creation dateOptional

Creation date is when the work was created or began. Publication date is when it was first made available.

First publication dateOptional

First publication date is the first public or canonical release date, if one exists.

Additional identifiers and verification

Optional publication links and identifiers help future buyers match this record to a release. They are not required to create a draft.

Edition or versionOptional

Version text helps distinguish editions, releases, or printings. Example: v1.0, First edition, Release 2026.07.

Original publication URLOptional

A public release or canonical project page, if one exists. Example: https://github.com/SigilForge/veildaemon

Registration number, release ID, repository, or other identifierOptional

Optional identifier. Examples: ISBN, DOI, Git commit, release tag, copyright registration number, or internal publication ID.

Licensing contactOptional

This contact becomes the licensing contact for the record. Review it before publication.

Suggested from the creation year and rights holder. You may edit it.

License composition

Not sure which license fits your project?

The license picker is an assistive recommendation system, not an automatic legal decision. It asks plain-language questions about your goals, narrows appropriate SPDX options or points you toward a custom license, and explains why each option is suggested. You always make the final selection.

Choose the goal that sounds closest: broad commercial reuse, attribution, forks, open modifications, reciprocal sharing, AI training posture, or separate permission for negotiated use. The exact license options below narrow from those answers and the selected work type.

Imported repository or package metadata may prefill a draft license, but you can override it after review. If evidence conflicts, the picker enters a review state instead of silently choosing a winner. SFR metadata layers provenance, verification state, AI permissions, and machine-readable rights details on top of the chosen license; it never replaces or modifies that license.

Exact copyright licenseRequired

Choose the final copyright license. Suggestions are traceable to your answers, work type, imported evidence, or conflict review; they are not legal advice. SFR stays separate and does not replace SPDX identifiers or canonical license text.

No reuse rights are granted unless a separate notice, agreement, or license says otherwise.

No SPDX ID

Proprietary

No reuse rights are granted unless a separate notice, agreement, or license says otherwise.

Commercial products, books, art, private releases, and records where licensing is handled by inquiry.

No SPDX ID

Custom

Reuse terms are defined in a custom agreement, creator notice, publisher contract, or future license template.

Commercial rights, enterprise review, adaptations, unreleased works, or rights that need negotiation.

Registry FrameworkSigilForge Rights Framework (SFR) v1.0

Defines the Creator Rights Record behavior: provenance metadata, verification state, AI permissions, evidence package semantics, artifact status, and machine-readable rights information.

SFR does not replace your selected copyright license. It publishes additional creator declarations, attribution guidance, AI permissions, provenance metadata, verification state, and machine-readable rights information alongside that license.

Rights statementRequired

Step 3 · AI permissions

Allowed means the use is permitted under this record. License required means written permission is needed. Prohibited means the use is not granted by this declaration.

Permission presetOptional

Presets only fill the fields. They do not approve or submit the record.

General AI trainingOptional

Use in model-training datasets or broad model improvement workflows.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.Foundation-model pretrainingOptional

Use in large base-model training before a model is specialized.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.Fine-tuningOptional

Use to adapt an existing model toward this work, style, data, or behavior.

This use is not allowed without a separate written change.EmbeddingsOptional

Use to convert the work into vectors for search, clustering, or retrieval.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.Retrieval-augmented generationOptional

Use where a model retrieves this work as context before answering.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.Text or image generationOptional

Use to generate new text, images, audio, or other outputs derived from the work.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.Dataset redistributionOptional

Sharing the work, transformed copies, or extracted data as a dataset.

This use is not allowed without a separate written change.Research useOptional

Use by researchers, labs, universities, or internal evaluation teams.

This use is limited to research contexts under the stated terms.Commercial useOptional

Use in a product, paid service, client work, or revenue-generating workflow.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.Attribution requiredOptional

Whether public or licensed use must credit the creator or rights holder.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.License requiredOptional

General fallback when a use is not covered by a more specific permission.

This use requires separate written permission or a license.

Step 4

File verification

SHA-256 is optional. It identifies one exact file version; it does not prove authorship or legal ownership.

Calculate a file hashI already have a SHA-256 hashSkip fingerprinting

Step 5

Review advisor draft

Public nameNot entered

Work titleNot entered

Rights holderNot entered

Primary LicenseProprietary

Registry FrameworkSFR v1.0

AI PermissionsCreator-defined

AvailabilityPublic

Licensing contactNot specified

File verificationSkipped

Generated AI-use summary

This work may not be used for fine-tuning, dataset redistribution without a separate written license. Model training, retrieval use, and commercial use require written permission. Research use is permitted only within the stated record terms.

Permanence & Registry License

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Sign in to create a permanent, timestamped Registry record, generate your Creator Dossier, and maintain versioned evidence over time.

The Advisor draft is free. The Founders price is a single one-time Registry license for the lifetime of this Creator Rights Record. There are no recurring subscription fees to keep your record active. Portable by design: export a self-contained Creator Dossier anytime so your evidence package remains under your control independent of platform hosting.

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