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THE SIGNAL
SECTION 17
ISSUE 001
PROJECTIONprovocation1-3yconfidence / medium
Style Consent Registries
Provocation: creators should be able to register machine-readable preferences for model training, style imitation, and commercial generation, with collective enforcement rather than individual policing. Such registries would not turn style into simple property; they would create negotiable norms around identity, attribution, and market substitution.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
EUIPO and UK government analyses identify training-data, output, and creator-remuneration conflicts that current copyright rules do not cleanly resolve.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
official EU study / published 2025-05-12 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Report and Impact Assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
official government report / published 2026-03-18 / retrieved 2026-07-09