We support the Creators Coalition on AI (CCAI) because creators deserve enforceable rights – not just vibes: transparency, consent, compensation, job protections, deepfake guardrails, and a future where human creativity stays at the center.
At Canon-Engine, we’re building a system for one thing: creative sovereignty – the ability for creators and rights-holders to define, manage, extend, and DEFEND story worlds without losing control of their work, their voice, or their livelihood.
If you’re a writer, showrunner, producer, publisher, performer, artist, or anyone whose work can be turned into ‘training data’ – you already know what’s at stake.
Generative systems can accelerate ideation and production – but they also enable:
- unlicensed reuse of creative work,
- synthetic derivatives that blur authorship,
- deepfakes and impersonation at scale,
- canon drift, where story worlds lose coherence and ownership becomes harder to prove,
- and economic displacement – without a plan.
This is not a theoretical problem. It’s a structural one. And structural problems require infrastructure, not just statements.
We support CCAI’s core pillars because they are practical, measurable, and necessary:
- Transparency, consent, and compensation: Creators deserve to know what was used, how, and under what license. And when work is used, creators deserve fair compensation – without needing a legal war to get it. A sustainable creative economy cannot be built on “scrape first, negotiate later.”
- Job protections and transition planning: AI will change creative workflows, staffing, timelines, and budgets. That disruption may be uneven across roles – but it won’t be small. Creators and their unions, guilds, and employers need transition plans that are real: training pathways, role protection, and safeguards against “silent replacement.”
- Guardrails against misuse and deepfakes: We need enforceable consequences for impersonation, unauthorized synthetic performances, and deceptive content. “Watermarks” and “best practices” are not enough by themselves. We need accountability systems that can hold up in real disputes.
- Safeguarding humanity in the creative process: The most important pillar is the least technical: human meaning. Stories are not just outputs. They’re culture, identity, memory, and values. A world where creativity is automated into sameness is a world that gets poorer – especially when it gets faster.
Canon-Engine exists because we saw a growing gap: the ai-tech industry is adding more generative capability every month, but it’s not adding enough to protect originators and enable legitimate licensing.
So we’re building narrative infrastructure for the generative era that helps creators and rights-holders:
- Define Canon: A living, curated “source of truth” for the story world – characters, timeline, locations, rules, themes, relationships, and constraints.
- Maintain Canon Integrity: When derivatives and variants are generated (by humans, tools, or teams), Canon-Engine helps prevent canon drift – the slow erosion of coherence that makes IP harder to manage and monetize.
- Track provenance and lineage: Who created what, when, from which source materials, and under which permissions. This is essential for rights management in a world where “content” can be multiplied instantly.
- Enable consent-based expansion: We believe the creative future includes generative tools – but they must operate inside clear boundaries: consent, licensing, compensation, and attribution.
That’s the difference between AI as extraction and AI as amplification.
If you’re a creator or stakeholder who believes in a future that respects human authorship, we encourage you to support the Creators Coalition on AI as well!
— Michael & Robb
Co-Founders, Canon-Engine