.Dave™ is BAI-LEY’s rights and provenance framework for AI-era media production. It embeds authorship, usage rights, and royalty metadata directly at the point of capture and through every AI transformation. For studio productions, .Dave creates a verifiable chain of custody that protects talent, secures IP, and simplifies legal review — all without slowing down production.

1. IP Ownership Cleared

Problem: AI tools generate assets with unclear ownership, making licensing and distribution risky. Solution: .Dave captures the authorship and rights data at the file level. Every frame, sound file, or model output carries an immutable metadata sidecar documenting who made it, under what terms, and with which tools.

2. Chain of Custody Seen

Problem: Legal teams need to know exactly how a shot or asset moved from creation to delivery. Solution: .Dave stores a step-by-step lineage of each file — inputs, models, and transformations — allowing full reconstruction of the creative pipeline.

3. Talent Rights & Union Compliance

Problem: Likeness, performance, and voice rights can be infringed unintentionally. Solution: .Dave tags every use of an actor’s likeness, voice, or motion capture data. This enables automated compliance with SAG-AFTRA, Equity, and other union regulations, as well as contractual checks with talent agents.

4. Model Provenance & Licensing

Problem: Studios must prove they used approved models and datasets. Solution: .Dave sidecars record model names, versions, hashes, and training data references. Legal can audit or certify a production’s AI stack without interrupting the creative process.

5. Royalty Tracking at Scale

Problem: Once an AI asset is released, ongoing royalty or participation payments can be hard to track. Solution: .Dave files can carry royalty routing and usage rules, enabling automated reporting and payouts downstream — similar to how music publishing handles rights with ASCAP or SWIFT.

6. Data Privacy & Security

Problem: Studios cannot risk leaks of unreleased content or personal data. Solution: .Dave runs locally on GODBOX or a studio’s own servers. No cloud dependency, no third-party storage. All hashes and signatures stay inside the production’s security perimeter.

Key Capabilities

• Metadata at Capture: Camera ingest and on-set AI nodes automatically generate .Dave sidecars.

• Immutable Sidecar Files: Cryptographically hashed JSON-based files that travel with each asset.

• Full Version Control: Every edit or transformation logs a new entry in the asset’s history.

• Royalty and Licensing Hooks: Optional fields to encode payment splits, usage limits, and expiration dates.

• API for Legal Teams: Internal dashboards can query .Dave manifests to see a production’s rights map at a glance.

How It Fits with GODBOX

When used with BAI-LEY’s GODBOX, .Dave becomes the compliance backbone of the entire AI/VFX pipeline. Every model call, every transformation, every export gets automatically logged, hashed, and certified for legal review.

Security and Compliance

• Air-Gapped Operation: No internet required.

• Cryptographic Signatures: Prevent tampering with metadata or hashes.

• Role-Based Access: Only authorised personnel can view or edit rights fields.

• Regular Audits: BAI-LEY can provide audit logs and compliance reports tailored to studio requirements.

Delivery Model

BAI-LEY provides .Dave as an open specification with a certified clearinghouse. Studios can implement it internally or use our managed compliance service. We train your legal and post teams to read and verify .Dave files and integrate them with your asset management systems.