Active topic
AI Training, Datasets, and Model Use
Creators are asking for consent, compensation, transparency, attribution, and usable records when creative work is used in AI systems.
Active path: AI Training & Your Rights
Start With The Problem Closest To Yours
If you know something is wrong but cannot name the legal or policy issue, start with the closest situation below. These pages do not promise an outcome. They help you orient, preserve records, understand the source-safe landscape, and connect your individual problem to collective action.
You found or fear that your work may have been copied into AI training without meaningful consent.
AI Training & Your Rights
For creators facing dataset, model-use, consent, compensation, attribution, and records questions.
Open PageA platform changed the rules, your reach shifted, or your account, payout, or audience access is suddenly at risk.
Platform Terms & Creator Rights
For reach, ranking, payout, moderation, policy-change, fee, and audience-access dependency.
Open PageYou need to understand what copyright protects, what AI complicates, and where the gaps remain.
Copyright in the Digital Age
For copyright, licensing, AI-era authorship, derivative-use, records, and enforcement questions.
Open PageYour voice, face, name, performance, style, or identity appears to have been replicated or reused.
Consent & Digital Likeness
For likeness, voice, name, persona, style, digital twin, consent, attribution, and synthetic-media issues.
Open PagePeople use, watch, read, buy, stream, or depend on your work, but the money is opaque, delayed, diluted, or too low.
Sustainable Creative Income
For royalties, revenue shares, payout transparency, delayed pay, fee stacking, contracts, and collective leverage.
Open PageThe Broader 15-Domain Rights Map
The five topic paths are active public paths. The full source map is broader, so STC also tracks contracts, discovery, safety, benefits, preservation, access, cultural heritage, and public-interest creative work as connected modules. The map below shows how those issues connect to the public rights pages.
Core module
Consent, Attribution, and Provenance
Provenance and attribution are practical infrastructure questions; credit alone is not a substitute for consent or fair pay.
Cross-cutting: AI Training, Consent, Copyright
Active topic
Digital Likeness, Voice, Style, and Identity
Voice, likeness, and identity concerns often extend beyond copyright and require consent, disclosure, limits, and control.
Active path: Consent & Digital Likeness
Active topic
Copyright, Licensing, and AI-Era IP
Copyright remains central, but creators also need clear licenses, records, consent systems, and updated frameworks.
Active path: Copyright in the Digital Age
Active topic
Platform Terms, Algorithmic Control, and Audience Access
Platform rules, ranking, distribution, moderation, fees, and payout visibility shape creator survival.
Active path: Platform Terms & Creator Rights
Active topic
Pay, Royalties, Revenue Shares, and Payout Transparency
Creators need transparent payout statements, timely payment, fair revenue shares, auditability, and bargaining power.
Active path: Sustainable Creative Income
Core module
Contracts, Work-for-Hire, Buyouts, and Rights Grabs
Contract terms are a major rights battlefield, especially around AI use, future rights, audits, late payment, and buyouts.
Module: Income, Copyright, Consent, AI Training
Connected lane
Collective Bargaining, Organizing, and Creator Power
Fragmented individual leverage is a structural problem; coordinated standards can change terms in covered sectors.
Module: Income, Platform Terms, Take Action
Core module
Discovery, Ranking, and Pay-to-Play Visibility
Visibility systems can shape creator income, audience access, and career survival while remaining hard to inspect.
Module: Platform Terms
Core module
Safety, Harassment, Abuse, and Workplace Dignity
Safety is a creator-rights issue; urgent danger or crisis belongs with emergency, crisis, legal, or workplace support.
Module: Consent, Platform Terms
Connected lane
Health, Burnout, Benefits, and Safety Nets
Income volatility, burnout, benefits gaps, and lack of safety nets are part of the structural rights landscape.
Module: Income, Safety
Connected lane
Preservation, Portability, Archives, and Cultural Legacy
Work, audiences, archives, reputation, and cultural context can disappear when platforms change, close, or block export.
Module: Platform Terms, Copyright, Provenance
Connected lane
Access, Equity, Geography, and Creator Exclusion
Payment rails, tool access, geography, disability access, language, credential barriers, and bias can exclude creators.
Module: Income, Platform Terms, Take Action
Careful lane
Cultural Appropriation, Community Knowledge, and Heritage Protection
Traditional knowledge and cultural expression require specificity, permission, and subject-matter review before public examples.
Specialized lane
Careful lane
Knowledge Integrity and Public-Interest Creative Work
Journalists, educators, researchers, translators, and archive workers need provenance, context, attribution, and accountable distribution.
Specialized lane
Why This Is Source-Aware
43
creative discipline sheets
521
sourced evidence items
246
creator subtypes
The source inventory also found AI-focused evidence in 35 of 43 sheets, Payments and Splits evidence across all 43 sheets, Well-being evidence across all 43 sheets, Discovery and Ranking evidence across 42 sheets, Preservation and Portability evidence across all 43 sheets, and Safety and Harassment evidence across 40 sheets.
What You Can Do Right Now
- Choose the rights page closest to your situation.
- Preserve records: URLs, screenshots, contracts, policies, payout statements, dates, files, notices, appeal records, and correspondence.
- Separate what you know from what you suspect before making public or legal claims.
- Explore related evidence in the Hub and issue pages where those pages are available.
- Seek qualified legal, crisis, workplace, accounting, tax, or benefits help where your individual circumstances require it.
- Sign the Declaration to join the collective demand for consent, fair pay, transparency, creator-centric platforms, and updated rights frameworks.
Rights education, not legal advice
These pages offer general creator-rights education and advocacy orientation. Individual disputes depend on facts, contracts, jurisdiction, platform rules, and current law. Use this as a starting point, preserve records, and seek qualified legal help for individual claims.
Stand Up for Creator Rights
Add your voice to the call for creators worldwide to claim what's rightfully theirs.