Authorship should remain visible through every approved use.

For most photographs, the photographer is the initial copyright author unless employment, work-made-for-hire rules, or a valid transfer changes that result. A vault record can point to the available agreement and attestation, but it does not decide copyright ownership by itself.

Attribution preferences, copyright notices, approved credits, and portfolio/display rights can be recorded alongside the asset so downstream users do not have to reconstruct them from scattered messages.

The intended workflow registers a private source asset, hashes files, and links approved crops, color work, retouching, composites, and delivery versions. A derivative record should identify what changed and who approved it without exposing the source file publicly.

This provenance can support trust, but a file hash only shows whether bytes match a known file. It does not prove that every claim about who, where, or why is true.

Some work may use a production fee, some may include residual participation, and some may involve an assignment or administrative license. The parties should see the project-specific basis, deductions, allocation, and payout history that actually applies.

Image Rights Vault does not assume 50/50, 40/40/10/10, or any other split for every job. Nor should an agency or platform automatically claim unrelated future work simply because it administered one project.

• Authorship and attribution
• Private source-file lineage
• Edit and derivative disclosure
• Approved portfolio display rights
• Production fees and project-specific residuals
• Transparent assignment or administration terms

The photographer can attest to authorship, source lineage, permitted edits, and the rights they are agreeing to license or administer. The depicted person separately approves the use of their likeness. Rights clearance depends on the required instruments and restrictions, not on either attestation alone.