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PYLON AI Provenance Attestation

Revision date: 2026-04-26 (draft v0.1.0) Audience: Filmmakers submitting AI-assisted Titles to PYLON Companion document: /legal/filmmaker-distribution-agreement

This Attestation is a sworn statement the Creator signs as part of submitting a Title to PYLON. It supplements the AI-content disclosures captured at upload (/studio/upload) and is required for every Title that uses any generative-AI tool in any part of its production pipeline.

1. Why this attestation exists

PYLON's editorial position is that AI-assisted narrative film is a legitimate creative form, but only where:

• a human creator has exercised meaningful selection, arrangement, and iteration (visible in PYLON's six-criterion scorecard);
• source assets are properly licensed, public-domain, original, or Creative Commons with attribution;
• any depicted real person has consented;
• the disclosure to PYLON is accurate.

This attestation captures those four propositions in a form the Creator can be held to. If the attestation is inaccurate and PYLON relies on it to publish, PYLON's right to remove the Title and pause the Creator's reversion clock is triggered, and the Creator's indemnity under clause 14 of the Filmmaker Distribution Agreement applies.

2. Definitions

In this attestation:

• AI use means any of the following, in any part of the Title's production pipeline:

  • generative video or image (text-to-video, image-to-video, text-to-image, image-to-image);
  • generative audio (text-to-music, music-to-music, text-to-speech, voice cloning);
  • speech-to-speech voice transfer;
  • generative or assisted dialogue, narration, or VO;
  • generative or assisted lip-sync, face-swap, or de-aging;
  • upscaling and frame interpolation that crosses into hallucinated content;
  • "training on output", any fine-tune, LoRA, embedding, or model derivative trained on output of an existing model where that derivative is then used to generate Title content;
  • automated assembly, cut, or montage where the cut is performed by a model on its own outputs (i.e. without a frame-by-frame human pass).

  AI use does not include conventional non-generative editing (manual cut, colour, comp, NLE timeline assembly), conventional VFX (rotoscope, keyframe-based comp, manual paint), or de-noise / stabilisation tools that do not hallucinate content.

• Source materials means original assets used to generate or inform the Title, including reference imagery, reference audio, scripts, location plates, voice samples, photographs, and any third-party stock or library content.

• Identifiable real person means any natural person who can be recognised by a reasonable viewer either by direct depiction (face, body, distinctive feature), by name, or by voice (where the voice is unique enough to identify them), regardless of whether the depiction is photographic, animated, or AI-generated.

3. The six-criterion human-creative-contribution rubric

The Creator attests that the Title demonstrates human creative contribution under each of the following six criteria, each of which PYLON evaluates on a 1–5 scale (publish threshold: 22 of 30):

3.1 Narrative coherence

The Title tells a story or has a discernible point. A human creator made the structural decisions: opening, escalation, resolution, hold, break, reveal. A vibe-only montage with no narrative through-line fails this criterion.

3.2 Visual craft

The Title exhibits human visual judgment: composition, colour, motion quality, and a managed AI-artefact rate. A 4K render full of liquid hands fails this criterion regardless of resolution.

3.3 Human creative contribution (the focal criterion)

The Title shows visible selection, arrangement, and iteration by a human creator. The human chose what generations to keep, what to discard, what to re-prompt, what to re-cut, what to overlay, what to re-time, and made those choices iteratively over hours/days of work.

3.4 Brand safety

Ads can run against the Title. No slurs, no hate, no targeted harassment, no non-consenting real-person likenesses, no content in violation of the AU Online Safety Act 2021 or US COPPA.

3.5 AI-slop indicators (inverted)

The Title does NOT exhibit faceless-automation patterns: meme remix, compilation farm, misleading-trailer cuts, infinite-zoom B-roll, or the stylistic markers of a tool-chain operating without taste.

3.6 Originality

The Title adds something to the AI-film canon. It is not a direct restatement of a viral work, regardless of polish.

4. Sworn statement

The Creator, having read sections 1–3 above, hereby attests as follows:

4.1 Accuracy

The information the Creator submitted to PYLON at /studio/upload about the Title's AI use, source materials, talent, and human creative contribution is true, accurate, and complete in all material respects.

4.2 Human creative contribution

The Title demonstrates human creative contribution under the rubric in section 3, and the Creator is the human creator (or one of the human creators credited in the deliverable's metadata) responsible for that contribution.

4.3 Source-asset clearance

Every source asset used in or to produce the Title is one or more of:

• (a) original to the Creator;
• (b) properly licensed under a written or platform-issued licence that authorises the use the Creator made of it;
• (c) public domain;
• (d) Creative Commons under terms that authorise the use the Creator made of it (with proper attribution where the licence requires it);
• (e) made available under a model provider's terms (e.g. an output of a generative-AI tool the Creator was authorised to use, with the tool's commercial-use rights extending to the Creator's use).

The Creator has not used any source asset:

• (i) under a licence the Creator no longer holds;
• (ii) where the licence does not extend to commercial-streaming distribution; or
• (iii) where the model provider's terms specifically prohibit redistribution of outputs.

4.4 Talent and likeness consent

For every identifiable real person depicted, named, or voiced in the Title, the Creator has obtained a written likeness-and-rights release on the template at /legal/talent-likeness-release (or a substantively equivalent release) and can produce that release on PYLON's request.

For any AI-generated depiction of an identifiable real person, the release expressly authorises AI generation in the manner of use (including face-swap, de-aging, voice clone, or other techniques applied).

The Creator has not depicted any identifiable real person without consent. The Creator has not generated voice clones or face-replaced content involving any identifiable real person without that person's specific written consent.

4.5 No prohibited content

The Title does not contain:

• (a) sexualised content involving minors;
• (b) hate speech, slurs, or content directed at protected characteristics;
• (c) calls to violence or content that incites violence;
• (d) deepfakes of identifiable real persons created without consent;
• (e) content in violation of the AU Online Safety Act 2021 or US COPPA;
• (f) content that infringes any third-party intellectual property, trade-mark, design, or moral right.

4.6 Disclosure of AI use

The Creator has disclosed every AI tool used in the production of the Title in Schedule A below. The Creator understands that PYLON retains this disclosure for legal and curation purposes and that PYLON does not automatically render the disclosure to viewers.

4.7 Compliance with this attestation is ongoing

The Creator's attestations remain true throughout the Term of the Filmmaker Distribution Agreement. If any attestation becomes untrue, the Creator shall notify PYLON in writing within 14 days at [email protected].

5. Sworn-statement language

The Creator makes the attestations in section 4:

• (US Creators): under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746;

• (Australian Creators): as a statutory declaration under the Statutory Declarations Act 1959 (Cth), with the equivalent solemn declaration treatment;

• (Other Creators): as a solemn declaration under the laws of the Creator's country of residence, of equivalent legal weight to the US perjury statement above.

The Creator acknowledges that an inaccurate attestation may give rise to civil liability and, in some jurisdictions, criminal liability.

6. Consequences of false attestation

If the Creator's attestation under section 4 is materially false:

6.1 Removal of the Title

PYLON may remove the Title from the PYLON service immediately and without further notice, under the Editorial Guardrail (clause 17 of the Agreement). Removal under this section pauses the auto-reversion clock under section 9.7 of the Reversion Policy.

6.2 Pause / cancel of advance and earnings

PYLON may:

• (a) suspend payment of any unpaid Compensation;
• (b) recoup any minimum guarantee that has been paid;
• (c) set off the recoupment against any future Compensation under any other Title (clause 10.9 of the Agreement).

6.3 Indemnity claim

The Creator's indemnity under clause 14.1 of the Agreement applies to any third-party claim arising from the false attestation, including the legal-fee shifting and damage-share allocations described there.

6.4 Termination

A material false attestation is grounds for PYLON to terminate the Agreement for cause, with respect to the affected Title or all of the Creator's Titles, in PYLON's reasonable discretion.

6.5 Repeat-infringer treatment

A pattern of inaccurate attestations may trigger PYLON's repeat-infringer policy at pylon.video/dmca, leading to permanent account termination.

7. Privacy and retention of this attestation

PYLON retains the executed attestation for the longer of:

• the Term of the Agreement (including any renewal); plus
• the applicable Australian / US statute of limitations on civil claims arising from the Title (typically 6 years from the cause of action, but PYLON retains for the longest of the applicable periods in the jurisdictions of release).

PYLON treats attestations as confidential under clause 16 of the Agreement and may share them with:

• PYLON legal counsel;
• PYLON's insurers (where required by policy);
• regulators or courts on lawful demand;
• prospective acquirers of PYLON under standard NDA;
• the Creator's appointed representatives on the Creator's request.

8. Updates to this attestation template

PYLON may update this template from time to time. New submissions are attested under the version then in force. Existing Creators are not required to re-attest under a new version unless and until they upload a new Title or replace the master of an existing Title.

PYLON shall preserve the prior version at docs/legal/archive/.

9. Signature block

The Creator signs by:

• electronically accepting at /studio/upload (the typed name on acceptance constitutes a digital signature under the Australian Electronic Transactions Act 1999 and the US Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act); or
• counter-signing a paper or PDF copy returned to [email protected].

Signed for the Creator:

  Name (printed): __________________________________________

  Capacity:       __________________________________________
                  (e.g. director / producer / authorised
                   representative of [Creator Legal Name])

  Date:           __________________________________________

  Title submitted: ________________________________________
                  (working title)

  Signature:      __________________________________________

Schedule A, AI tools used

List every generative-AI tool used in any part of the production pipeline. Format: tool name, version (if known), provider, role in production, approximate share of the final pixel output.

Examples of "Role": text-to-video, voice clone, score generation, upscaling, mocap-to-character, dialogue synthesis, AI-driven cut.

If no AI tools were used in a particular discipline (e.g. score is all human-composed), write "n/a, human-composed" with a brief description.

If a fine-tune or LoRA was used, identify:

• the base model;
• the fine-tune training source data (and its licence);
• whether the fine-tune is published, private, or proprietary.

Schedule B, Source materials list

List every source material (footage, photo, audio, model, dataset) used in or to produce the Title, with its licence basis.

"Licence basis" examples: original to Creator, written licence (attach), Creative Commons (specify version + attribution), public domain (specify provenance), platform output (specify tool + account ID), commercial stock (specify library + asset ID).

Schedule C, Talent depicted

List every identifiable real person depicted, named, or voiced in the Title. Attach (or reference) a likeness-release per person.

"Type of depiction" examples: live-action photo, AI-generated likeness, voice clone, face-swap, narrated reference, name-only.

For minors, include parent / guardian release confirmation and any statutory protections that apply (e.g. Australian state working-with-children laws, US Coogan-style trust requirements where applicable).

Schedule D, Editorial intake metadata (auto-populated by /studio/upload)

This Schedule D is auto-populated from the Creator's /studio/upload flow. The Creator does not fill it in here; it is reproduced here so the Creator can verify accuracy at signature.

• Submission ID: [auto]
• Title: [Title]
• Slug: [slug]
• Submission timestamp: [auto]
• Editorial scorecard sub-totals: [auto, post-curation]
• Provenance JSON snapshot: [auto]

Contact

• Editorial / provenance questions: [email protected]
• Legal: [email protected]

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