Founding collaboration in development
Proposed collaboration · no operating authority createdA rights-first bridge between representation and career ownership.
This page describes a proposed founding collaboration model with Maine Modeling Agency. Any operating authority must come from signed, role-specific agreements; the page itself creates none.
Distinct roles
The agency represents. The vault preserves the rights record.
Maine Modeling Agency is intended to recruit and support pilot participants, coordinate representation activity within signed scopes, and help connect suitable work. Image Rights Vault is intended to register sessions and assets, preserve attestations and agreements, evaluate use-specific rights, record economics, and support portability.
Neither name should obscure the boundary. MMA is not the whole platform, and use of the vault should not expand MMA's authority beyond the participant's actual representation agreement.
For participants
Representation should not consume a person's career.
Participants should be able to see which assets they own or may use, which work MMA is authorized to represent, which licenses are active, and how project economics are calculated. MMA does not automatically own a participant's entire likeness, identity, portfolio, or income from unrelated future work.
When representation ends, future agency access and authority should end according to the agreement. Owned career assets and permitted records should remain portable, while valid licenses, item verification, and other parties' rights continue according to their actual terms.
For photographers
Authorship, attribution, and agreed economics remain visible.
Photographers retain the authorship and rights the applicable project documents leave with them. A session record can preserve source lineage, edit disclosure, credit, portfolio permissions, production fees, and any project-specific participation.
There is no automatic universal split and no automatic claim on unrelated future work. Each project should state its actual ownership, administration, permissions, fees, and allocation.
Founding test
The partnership must prove its value through a small pilot.
The current 90-day target is four adult participants, two photographers, 40 approved rights-cleared final assets, four candidate physical-product families, and structured buyer learning in Maine and New England. These are plans, not completed operating results.
The pilot must test accurate rights clearance, useful buyer demand, project accounting, participant and photographer payouts, protection handling, and one export-and-exit simulation. A later AI demonstration is not included without separate gates and approvals.