AI has blown a hole straight through narrative IP
Generative tools are now producing story-adjacent content that feel plausibly “in-world” even when they have no official connection to the IP.
The result is a rapidly expanding gray zone where audiences can no longer tell what’s authentic, creators can no longer maintain continuity, and studios can no longer protect their own narrative logic.
Derivative confusion, once the domain of niche fanfic forums, is suddenly a mainstream legal and creative crisis.
In a generative world, IP is no longer a static work – it’s a dynamic system.
Most franchises weren’t built with systems in mind. They were built one book, one script, one season at a time – the narrative equivalent of constructing a skyscraper by starting with the penthouse.
Canon-Engine is a narrative operating system designed-for the Generative AI era.
With Canon-Engine, Generative AI tools stay inside the lines, instead of hallucinating canon-shattering nonsense.
This is the shift: From protecting text to protecting the logic behind the text.
Canon-Engine is helping authors, studios, publishers, and thier IP attorneys – fortify their foundations.
If you can’t define your world, you can’t defend it.
And if you can’t defend it, AI is going to re-define it for you.
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