Journalism - Creation Rights

Journalism

Problem:

Journalists and newsrooms face rampant unlicensed reuse of articles, images, and videos by aggregators, AI systems, and content farms, often without credit, consent, or compensation. Their work is frequently scraped, republished, paraphrased, or remixed by AI tools without visibility or control.

How Creation Rights Solves This:

Creation Rights Management (CRM)

Register: Journalists register original articles, reports, interviews, headlines, investigative databases, photographs, and video segments. The Provenance Graph captures bylines, sources, timestamps, editorial lineage, and supporting materials.
License: Use Smart Licensing to define usage, e.g., editorial reuse, educational use, syndication, AI opt-out, embargoed content, and platform-specific restrictions.
Monetize: Dynamic Metadata includes licensing terms (e.g., one-time republication, excerpt only), revenue-sharing (e.g., between freelancer and outlet), takedown clauses, and opt-in/out controls for AI model training or summarization tools.

Creation Rights Exchange (CRX)

Verification: Platforms, aggregators, and AI systems can verify if they have rights to quote, republish, summarize, or train on journalistic content in real time, reducing infringement and automating compliance.
Enforcement: The Content ID Layer detects unauthorized republication, paraphrased or AI-generated versions of articles, lifted headlines, or repurposed images and videos, triggering attribution, licensing, or removal.
Interoperability: CRX integrates with CMS tools, publisher APIs, academic archives, and fact-checking platforms, enabling automated licensing, tracking, and IP protection across the journalistic ecosystem.

Example Scenario:

You are an investigative journalist who publishes an exclusive story under a subscriber-only license. Days later, multiple AI-driven news summarizers paraphrase the piece and republish it for free. CRX identifies the derivative outputs, and the Smart License enforces attribution or monetization, or triggers removal for license violation.