Where this stands today. Steps 01 to 03 are open now: the Founding Registry accepts registrations, every record is countersigned and filed, and you can mark your own pages. Steps 04 and 05 describe what the record is built to answer and what Alltio is built to clear.
The registry is deliberately useful on its own. A timestamped, verifiable record of authorship and terms does work for you in provenance disputes, takedowns, and licensing conversations anywhere — on Alltio or off it — before a single buyer arrives.
01
Rights holder
Register the work — once
Text, image, video, dataset, model, specification. The work itself never leaves your machine: your browser does the maths and sends only the result.
Open the registry
Go to alltio.com/register. No account required to start, free during the founding period.
Fingerprint, locally
Your browser computes a SHA-256 hash of the file. The file is never uploaded — only the fingerprint travels.
Describe the terms
Owner, title, asset type, and the licensing terms you want to attach to it.
New work, or new version?
A revision is its own registration. Label it v2 and name the record it supersedes — the chain stays intact.
02
Alltio registry
Countersigned, then held
Alltio adds the half of the record you cannot produce yourself: an independent timestamp and signature from a neutral third party. That is what makes it evidence rather than an assertion.
Countersign
Server timestamp plus HMAC signature applied to your submission.
Verify the chain
If the record supersedes another, the prior record must exist and the registrant must match. A back-link is written into the new record.
Nothing is ever erased
The prior record is marked superseded — never edited, never deleted. History stays readable.
Record filed — immutable
One record answers every question an AI company, a court, or a platform will ask about this work.
fingerprintownertermstimestampversion chain
You receive a JSON record, a public verify URL, an email receipt, and a page embed you can paste anywhere.
03
Optional accelerants
Make the registration impossible to miss
Only relevant if you control a website. Skipping this changes nothing about your rights — the fingerprint still resolves. These steps just let a crawler see the answer before it has to go looking.
Paste the page embed
A visible line plus a JSON-LD block, in the head or body. Replace it whenever you register a new version.
Declare the site
Drop /.well-known/alltio.json at your root. One file, once, covering everything you publish.
Cite the public record
A verify URL you can point at in takedowns, disputes, badges, and licensing conversations.
04
AI company
What the record answers
This is the question the registry exists to settle. An ingestion pipeline that checks can resolve ownership and terms in one call — whether or not the page was ever marked, because computing a SHA-256 is a trivial pipeline step and it resolves to the same record either way.
The record answers, so the work doesn’t have to.
Marked page
The pipeline reads the page embed or the site declaration and finds the registration in place.
Unmarked file
No mark anywhere: compute SHA-256 and call the lookup API. Same answer, one extra step.
The registry replies
Registered and licensable, registered and protected, or no record on file.
Registered — licensable
Licensable under one standard Alltio contract with signed usage reporting, rather than a bilateral negotiation per rights holder.
Registered — protected
Not available for use. The refusal is timestamped, so a later dispute has no accident to claim.
Not registered
No record on file. The lookup is still logged as evidence that the check was made.
Every lookup is logged and returned as a signed diligence receipt — the audit trail the EU AI Act’s transparency obligations ask for, produced as a byproduct of normal operation rather than reconstructed later.
05
Clearing and settlement
What the record is built to clear
Alltio is not a marketplace and does not buy or resell anything. It is the clearing layer between the two sides — the bookkeeper of record, built so that when an AI model uses licensed content, the creator gets paid: routinely, not through litigation.
Metered
Signed usage reports, submitted under contract, aggregate across participating providers.
Collected
The settlement engine collects from the AI side against the standing contract.
Paid out
Payout to the rights holder, in their own currency.
Recourse
When something looks wrong: sampling, third-party audit, arbitration.
The record is worth holding before any of this arrives.
That is the design. Registration gives you a timestamped, verifiable claim you can use today — in provenance disputes, in takedowns, in licensing conversations that have nothing to do with us. Everything above is what that record plugs into as the clearing layer comes online. Register because the record stands on its own; the rest is what it was built for.