Briefings
Track what changed
Plain-English updates on AI image rights, copyright, client usage, stock platforms, and visual-creator business risk.
View briefings →AI image-rights briefings for visual creators
AI is changing
image rights.
Visual creators need clearer terms.
Plain-English briefings, guides, and practical tools for photographers, illustrators, designers, stock contributors, AI-assisted visual creators, and small creative studios.
Know what changed. Protect the work. Brief the client.
The new client problem
Files do more than sit in a campaign folder now.
A delivered image can become AI input, dataset material, prompt reference, an agency handoff, an internal AI-system asset, or fuel for future campaign variations.
Can a client upload my images to AI tools?
Can my work be used for model training?
Can clients generate future campaign assets from my work?
What records should I keep?
The book
The AI Rights Handbook for Visual Creators is now available.
A practical guide to copyright, ownership, client contracts, AI training, disclosure and evidence for photographers, illustrators, designers, image makers and creative studios working with AI-assisted visuals.
Clarify the rights position
Use the handbook to separate copyright, licensing, AI use, client reuse, training restrictions and exclusivity before a project is delivered.
Work from practical documents
Pair the book with downloadable checklists, project records, client prompts and sample clauses you can adapt for real visual-creator work.
Start here
Briefings, the calculator, and a practical toolkit.
Start with the daily updates, use the calculator to review a project, and turn recurring client questions into clearer boundaries with the toolkit.
Rights Calculator
Review a project
A free browser-based project review for AI use, ownership questions, licensing, tool terms, documentation, and client permissions.
Open calculator →Toolkit
Set client boundaries
A practical AI client-usage toolkit with clauses, addenda, workflow forms, recordkeeping sheets, and client email templates.
View toolkit →What we track
AI copyright and image-rights changes that affect visual work.
AI Rights Brief focuses on the practical areas where AI changes visual work: authorship records, client reuse, training rights, stock rules, disclosure, provenance, and licensing boundaries.
Copyright & authorship
Human contribution and AI-assisted images
Track how courts, copyright offices, and platforms treat AI-generated images, AI-assisted visual work, human authorship, records, prompts, edits, composites, and final image ownership expectations.
Follow human authorship →Client usage
AI training, reuse, and derivative campaigns
Follow the practical questions that arise when clients, agencies, or third parties want to upload, process, remix, train on, or generate new campaign assets from commissioned visual work.
Follow client AI use →Platform rules
Stock, disclosure, provenance, and licensing
Watch how stock sites, creative platforms, AI tools, and policy bodies handle disclosure labels, provenance metadata, AI image submission rules, licensing limits, and protected characters or brands.
Follow platform rules →Toolkit focus
Set the boundaries before the files leave your hands.
The AI Client Usage & Contract Toolkit helps visual creators define what clients can and cannot do with commissioned work, source files, outtakes, concepts, references, and visual direction.
Core boundary
AI training, dataset use, third-party AI upload, and future AI-generated campaign use are not included unless expressly agreed in writing.
Helps clarify
- What the client may use
- What requires separate permission
- What should be priced separately
- What should be repeated at delivery