Emerging Proof Frontier · d20.01In preparation

Consent to Be Learned From

AI learns from everything. PlenaProof records whether you said it could.

Models are trained on work, data, voices, and faces — usually without a dated record of permission or refusal. PlenaProof does not stop the training and does not litigate it. PlenaProof gives you one thing the current system does not: a clear, dated, checkable record of what you permitted, what you refused, and on what terms — created before the question is contested.

The gap

Copyright tells you who owns a work. Data-protection law gives you rights over personal data. Neither produces a portable, timestamped artifact that says "the person who could consent did, or did not, and here are the terms" — in a form a publisher, a model developer, a regulator, or a court can inspect later. That artifact is what is missing, and it is what PlenaProof records.

What you can record

A creator, an institution holding others' data under a duty, or a person whose likeness has value can prepare a Training & Likeness Consent Receipt: the work or data or likeness described; the parties; the permission granted or refused; the terms (commercial, attribution, time-limited, revocable); and a timestamp. The receipt is preserved and independently checkable.

Receipt grammar applied

The PLENA six-part grammar, applied to training and likeness consent.

Who acted

The rights-holder or duty-bearer preparing the record.

Who consented (or refused)

Named, with authority to do so.

What was received

The request to train, license, or scrape, where one exists.

What the terms were

Scope, duration, revocability, attribution.

What was preserved

The dated record, routed to durable storage.

What can be checked

A public-safe verification of the receipt's structure.

Who this is for

Individual creators

Writers, artists, musicians, photographers, and developers who want a refusal-to-train receipt dated before a scrape.

Institutions under duty

Universities, archives, hospitals, and publishers that hold other people's work or data under a duty and must show they honored or withheld consent.

Performers and public figures

Those protecting voice and likeness — where the asset is their identity itself.

Boundary

Does not replace — copyright law, GDPR/RGPD data rights, the EU AI Act, or licensing marketplaces.

Complements — those instruments, by adding the dated consent-or-refusal record they assume but do not produce.

Owns — the timestamped training-and-likeness consent/refusal receipt and its terms.

Rule — PlenaProof records the consent; it does not enforce it.

Links

Pairs with ORIGINA (priority proof of authorship), PLENA CONSERVA (preservation), the PlenaProof Vault (lifetime archive), and issues a VRX-5 AI-era trust receipt. Public verification at Public Verify. In preparation.