⚖ tCL Rights · Plain-Talk Help Guide
A transContinentaL Entity for Purposes of Planetary Commerce
The 30-second version: tCL Rights is Our own
rights-management system — like ASCAP/BMI/SoundExchange/IP-Office, but built by Us, for Us, on Our terms.
Every song You write, every track You record, every contract You sign goes onto a public, tamper-evident
ledger that anyone can verify. No middlemen, no industry gate-keepers, no waiting for a paper-pusher to
approve You. Stewardship is the price of admission — not pedigree.
1 · Why does tCL Rights exist?
Old-system rights organisations exist to register, track, and pay royalties on Your creative work — but they extract a chunk along the way, and the rules can shift on You without warning. tCL Rights rebuilds that whole stack inside the NuBein ePronomy:
- Sovereign: Your work is registered on a public ledger that anyone can audit, not stored in a private corporate database.
- Tamper-evident: every entry is hash-chained — change one byte and the whole chain breaks. Auditors and journalists can prove inclusion in seconds.
- Skill-Stewardship priced: activation is contribution-based, not money-based.
- Splits live on the work, not in a contract drawer. When royalties land, every collaborator gets paid automatically by their declared %.
2 · The elementary explanation
Imagine an old library where every book has a signed slip glued in the back saying who wrote it, who illustrated it, and how to split the lending fees.
tCL Rights is that library — except the signed slip is a cryptographic hash, the librarian is a public ledger anyone can verify, and the lending fees show up in Your wallet automatically the moment somebody plays Your song.
3 · Glossary — every word You'll see
WorkAnything You created — a song, beat, video, photo, poem, blog post, sermon, recipe, code module. Once registered, the system minted a tCL-ISWC ID for it.
tCL-ISWCA unique ID for Your work, like an ISBN for books. Used in royalty statements, contracts, and citation links.
RecordingA specific performance of a Work — a Work can have many Recordings (acoustic version, remix, live version, etc.).
Split-SheetThe list of who-owns-what-percent of a Work (writer, producer, vocalist, etc.). tCL auto-generates a PDF letterhead version You can sign + circulate.
LicenseA formal grant of usage rights — sync (film/TV), mechanical (physical/digital sale), public-performance (radio/streaming), master-use (sampling).
RoyaltyThe money that flows back to You every time Your Work is used — calculated automatically from streams, sales, and sync placements.
Sovereign LedgerThe public, append-only audit log of every tCL action. Anyone can read it, no login needed. Each entry is SHA-256-chained to the one before it.
Merkle RootA 32-byte fingerprint of the entire ledger. If any entry is changed, the root changes. Anyone can independently compute it from the public ledger.
Inclusion ProofThe cryptographic receipt that proves a specific entry is part of the current Merkle root, with O(log n) siblings instead of the full ledger. Available at /sovereignty.html?entry=<id>.
Membership TierYour role inside tCL: Writer, Artist, Producer, Public Figure. Each tier unlocks specific registration types + payouts.
4 · Register Your first work in 5 steps
1Apply for membership — pick the tier that fits (Writer / Artist / Producer / Public Figure). Application is reviewed by a Sovereignty Steward — usually under 24 hours.
2Open "Register Work" — title, type (song / video / image / text), creation date, language.
3Add collaborators — declare each contributor + their split %. Total must equal 100. tCL builds the split-sheet PDF automatically.
4Upload the asset (optional but recommended) — the system computes a SHA-256 fingerprint so future infringement claims have a baseline.
5Submit — Your tCL-ISWC ID is generated immediately, the registration appears on the Sovereign Ledger, and Your dashboard updates.
5 · Auto split-sheet — how it works
When You declare collaborators on a Work, tCL doesn't just save percentages in a database — it generates a signed PDF letterhead split-sheet with the tCL seal, the Work's tCL-ISWC ID, every collaborator's name + role + percentage, and a signature block. You download it, the collaborators counter-sign, You re-upload the signed PDF, and tCL anchors its hash to the ledger. From that moment forward, every royalty event automatically flows by the declared splits.
Why does this matter?
The old industry runs on disputes. "I thought I owned 30%" — "no, you signed for 20%" — and then the lawyers eat both sides. tCL solves this at the data layer: the percentages are on the work, on a public ledger, before any money touches the work. There's nothing to argue about because everyone has already signed and the proof is verifiable.
6 · The Sovereign Ledger & Merkle inclusion proofs
Every action in tCL — work registered, license granted, statement issued, payout sent — appends an entry to the Sovereign Ledger. Each entry stores: an event name, a payload, the hash of the previous entry, and its own SHA-256 hash over the whole thing.
Anyone — auditor, journalist, fan — can:
- Read the ledger at
/api/tcl-audit/public/head + /api/tcl-audit/public/verify.
- Compute the Merkle root themselves from
/api/tcl-audit/ledger.
- Get an inclusion proof for any single entry at
/api/tcl-audit/public/inclusion-proof/{entry_id}.
- Use the in-browser tool at /sovereignty.html with the entry id pre-filled (
?entry=<id>).
The Tribal Treasury Living Map (Super Admin dashboard) visualises the entire ledger as a hex of glowing dots — click any dot to deep-link to its inclusion proof.
7 · Membership tiers + benefits
- Writer — register Works (lyrics, scripts, articles, code modules, recipes, etc.).
- Artist — register Recordings of Works + receive performer royalties.
- Producer — register Recordings + master-use rights + production splits.
- Public Figure — register name/likeness + manage public statements / sermons / interviews.
One person can hold multiple tiers — e.g., a singer-songwriter is Writer + Artist.
8 · Royalties — flow, statements, payouts
Royalties flow into Your tCL account three ways:
- Streams — every play of a Recording calls
royalties.calculate on the ledger, then pro-rates by the Work's declared splits.
- Licenses — sync / mechanical / public-performance grants emit
license.grant events with their own payouts.
- Direct sales — pack/track/album sales emit
sale.complete with full proceeds (minus the 5% community-flow tithe, which goes to the Tribal Treasury).
Statements are generated weekly. Payouts settle to Your in-app wallet (QN) by default, or to USD via Stripe Checkout if You've enabled USD payouts.
9 · Disputes & takedowns
If You believe a registered Work infringes Yours, open tCL Rights → Disputes → File a Counter-Claim. Provide the disputed tCL-ISWC, Your evidence (audio fingerprint, dated drafts, etc.), and Your claimed split. A 14-day mediation window opens; if no resolution, the case escalates to the Sovereignty Stewards Council. Both sides' submissions are anchored to the ledger so the record is permanent.
10 · What's next?
No dead ends — here's Your next move:
- 📜 Register Your first Work — open The Deliverance App, click tCL Rights, hit "Register New Work".
- 📖 Read the AnkhCestral Codex for every term in plain talk (bottom-nav 📖).
- 🛡 Verify a public ledger entry at /sovereignty.html — paste any entry id and get the Merkle proof.
- 🗺 Tour the Tribal Treasury Living Map (Super Admin dashboard) to see every ledger entry pulse in real time.