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Foundation / Artist Rights

Artists retain copyright. Permissions stay specific.

Entry display, product licensing, production, compensation, and official history serve different purposes. One permission must not quietly become every permission.

Reference only. This is not an agreement, offer, Official Rules document, entry, selection, production approval, compensation term, payout schedule, tax statement, evidence review, or appeal.

  1. 01 / ArtistCopyright retainedCreative ownership begins with the artist.
  2. 02 / EntryDefined display permissionReview and preview do not create production rights.
  3. 03 / ProductSeparate signed agreementProduction and compensation require approved terms.
  4. 04 / HistoryAttribution and official recordArchive purpose does not expose private evidence.

Distinct purposes / defined permissions / recorded approvals

Current evidence

The principles are clear. The first-release terms are not.

The repository confirms copyright retention, scoped permissions, separate production rights, attribution, protected evidence, and compensation through an approved signed agreement. It does not approve the final agreements or economics.

Confirmed direction

Rights remain bounded by purpose.

  • Artists retain copyright
  • Entry display differs from product licensing
  • Creative changes require artist approval
  • Attribution and official history remain important
  • Private evidence, tax, and payout information stay protected
Founder decision unresolved

Identity, license, compensation, and payout terms.

  • Verification timing and provider
  • License grant, territory, term, product, and Edition
  • Royalty or per-unit model and any minimum guarantee
  • Statements, payout timing, refunds, chargebacks, and taxes
  • Final agreements, evidence, and production approvals

Fourteen public commitments

Every permission answers one purpose.

The applicable approved agreement and Official Rules must supply exact legal terms before an artist is asked to act.

01

Artists retain copyright.

Review, display, selection, or archive presence does not make the Artwork zHezar property.

02

Permissions stay defined.

Only the permissions stated for the applicable competition, product, campaign, or archive purpose may apply.

03

Display is not product licensing.

Permission to review or show an entry does not authorize merchandise production.

04

Production uses a separate agreement.

Manufacturing rights require approved terms distinct from the entry relationship.

05

Creative changes require approval.

The applicable agreement must preserve the artist's authority over proposed creative alterations.

06

Technical adjustments have a scope.

Production-required changes must stay inside a disclosed and approved boundary.

07

Artists receive attribution.

Official presentation connects the credited artist, Artwork, and release.

08

Official participation is preserved.

Approved work and participation may remain visible without exposing private evidence.

09

Release history remains archived.

Official history stays distinct from unrestricted submission or source-file publication.

10

Compensation follows the signed agreement.

Exposure, attention, selection, or archive presence does not replace approved compensation.

11

Tax and payout details stay private.

Financial and identity records are not ordinary public artist-profile content.

12

Private evidence stays protected.

Process, identity, rights, and review evidence require purpose-limited access and handling.

13

AI detection is not proof.

An automated score may inform review but cannot conclusively decide human creation.

14

Eligible decisions need an appeal path.

A consequential decision receives the reviewed route defined by its approved policy.

Document boundaries

A summary cannot do the work of an agreement.

Each document has a different job, owner, review path, version, and acceptance point. None of the unavailable documents is created here.

This reference

Artist Rights summary

Plain-language principles and readiness limits only.

Not approved

Artist Submission Agreement

Entry receipt, review, display, attribution, evidence, withdrawal, records, and appeal terms—not an unlimited merchandise license.

Not approved

Winning Artist License and Compensation Agreement

Product, Edition, territory, term, production, marketing, archive, approval, compensation, tax, and dispute terms.

Not approved

Official Rules and Human Creativity Policy

Eligibility, entry, deadlines, review, AI-tool limits, voting, results, appeals, winner verification, and production gates.

Permission layers

Entry display and product production answer different questions.

A submission relationship may support official review and a defined preview. It must not silently become an unlimited product, later-Edition, derivative, campaign, or archive license.

Entry and review purpose

Receive, review, identify, and display within approved rules.

  • Official entry and permitted evidence review
  • Selected voting preview and artist attribution
  • Competition record, communication, and eligible appeal
Separate production purpose

Manufacture only after rights and compensation are approved.

  • Defined Artwork, product, Edition, territory, and term
  • Creative approval and bounded technical adjustments
  • Signed compensation, statements, payout, tax, and dispute terms

Review and evidence

A detector may raise a question. People and policy decide it.

Human-creation review must protect artist evidence, distinguish a technical signal from proof, record the decision, and provide the approved response path for eligible consequential outcomes.

Signal

Automated detection is limited.

No score conclusively proves that a work was or was not generated.

Evidence

Requests stay proportionate.

Only approved, necessary process or rights evidence should enter a protected review.

Decision

Human review remains accountable.

The applicable policy must define reviewers, evidence, reasons, and authority.

Response

Eligible decisions support appeal.

The final route must define timing, independence, permitted evidence, and authoritative outcome.

Public-promise limits

Respect for artists does not require impossible promises.

The final program must state its limits instead of using exposure, visibility, a profile, or a future product as an implied guarantee.

  1. 01

    Selection is guaranteed.

  2. 02

    Manufacturing is guaranteed.

  3. 03

    A product will remain available permanently.

  4. 04

    A specific sales volume will occur.

  5. 05

    A specific payout exists unless the approved contract establishes it.

  6. 06

    Every submission will be released publicly.

  7. 07

    Artwork copying can be prevented completely.

  8. 08

    Every requested production change will be approved.

  9. 09

    Profile access continues permanently after every type of restriction.

Readiness / July 2026

Represented honestly. No production-active classification.

This table records public-reference readiness and unresolved gates. It is not a live competition, legal-document registry, artist record, compensation ledger, payout statement, or appeal source.

AreaStateMeaning
Public Artist Rights summaryPublic reference

Static principles and readiness boundaries only; not an agreement or offer.

Artist Submission AgreementFounder and legal decision required

No approved terms, version, owner, publication, or acceptance exists.

Winning Artist License and Compensation AgreementOD-008 unresolved

License, production, compensation, payout, tax, and dispute terms are undecided.

Human Creativity and Generative-AI PolicyPolicy review required

Tool rules, evidence, human review, privacy, retention, and appeal terms are not approved.

Official Competition RulesLegal approval required

No entry, eligibility, deadline, voting, winner, production, or compensation authority exists.

Artist profile and release archiveProduction implementation required

Public and private fields, continuity, correction, restriction, and deletion behavior remain gated.

Protected evidence and eligible appealsWorkflow approval required

No intake, review decision, deadline, independent review, appeal, or outcome exists.

Current public route

Read the principles. Check the document status.

Legal & Trust shows which formal documents remain unavailable. Transparency explains the broader human-creation and public-claim boundary.