Source Layer · UK

Prove it. Protect it. License it.

The UK's compliance infrastructure for AI-era content licensing. Creators prove ownership. AI developers license legally. Everyone wins.

Proof of craft in the AI age.


The infrastructure gap

The UK's £145.8bn creative economy has no compliance infrastructure for the AI age.

01

Creators can't prove it.

Your work trains AI models without consent, attribution, or payment. Opt-out tools like Glaze and robots.txt don’t scale. There’s no system of record.

02

AI developers can't license it.

Companies building AI want to do the right thing but there’s no legal pathway. No standardised licensing. No way to verify what’s in their training data.

03

Labels can't monitor it.

Catalogues worth millions are being ingested at scale. Labels and publishers have no infrastructure to detect usage, enforce rights, or negotiate licensing at the speed AI moves.

04

Regulation demands it.

The EU AI Act (Art. 53, August 2026) mandates training data disclosure. The UK rejected broad TDM exceptions. Compliance is no longer optional — but the infrastructure doesn’t exist yet.

Source Layer is the compliance infrastructure that connects all three sides: creators who own it, AI developers who need it, and the regulations that require it.


How it works

Three layers. One platform. The compliance backbone for AI-era licensing.

01 · PRV

Prove It

Provenance

Register your work with a cryptographic fingerprint and C2PA content credential. Immutable proof of creation, timestamped and tamper-proof. The foundation layer that everything else is built on.

02 · DET

Protect It

Detection

Continuous scanning of AI training datasets and model outputs. When your work appears, you get evidence-grade detection reports — ready for compliance verification or enforcement.

03 · LIC

License It

Licensing

The infrastructure that makes legal AI training possible. Standardised licensing templates, usage-based royalties, and EU AI Act compliance documentation — all through a single integration.


For creators

Your work. Your proof. Your terms.

01 · MUSIC

Musicians & Songwriters

Your catalogue has value. Know when AI trains on it. Get paid when they use it.

02 · VISUAL

Visual Artists & Illustrators

Glaze failed. We don't poison — we prove and protect.

03 · WORDS

Authors & Writers

Your words trained their model. Now you can prove it.

04 · LABELS

Labels & Publishers

Bulk-register your catalogue via API. Get continuous detection reports. License to AI developers through standardised infrastructure — not one-off deals.

Starting with music. Expanding to visual art, text, gaming, and film.


For AI developers

Compliant training data. One integration.

01 · COMPLY

EU AI Act ready

Art. 53 mandates training data disclosure from August 2026. Source Layer provides the compliance documentation and audit trail you need — before the deadline.

02 · LICENSE

License at scale

Access properly licensed creative content through a single API. Standardised terms, usage-based pricing, no more chasing individual rights holders.

03 · VERIFY

Prove your dataset is clean

Run your training data against our fingerprint database. Get a compliance certificate showing what’s licensed, what’s not, and what needs attention.