Design principles / Aegillis
Registration is not permission
A record describes a work. Permission describes a choice about its use. Keeping those ideas distinct is a starting principle for Aestelier.
What a record is for
A work can exist as an original, a preview, an export and a series of revisions. A structured record can help describe how those files belong together, who is connected to the work and how its history develops.
The question is how that context could stay with a work as it moves between files and platforms.
Different uses, separate choices
The existence of a record says nothing by itself about whether someone may display the work, reuse it commercially or use it for model training.
These are different decisions. An artist might want to describe a work publicly while keeping the original restricted. They might welcome a licensing request while declining training. A system needs room to express those distinctions.
Registering a work must not quietly change what someone else may do with it.
For Aestelier, these distinctions belong in the thinking from the start: describing a work and deciding how it may be used are separate questions.
Participation by choice
Sharing an example to discuss a creative process should not become a general permission to use it elsewhere.
Likewise, describing the origin of a work should not automatically authorise its indexing, reuse or use for model training.
That separation needs to exist in the architecture as well as in the words on a page. A consent choice should correspond to a specific use, rather than an assumption attached to registration.
A principle to build around
Aegillis is a future project. Its scope is still open, and no registration or protection service is offered here.
For now, the useful starting point is a question: what context and choices would you want to remain connected to your work?
This note sets out an intention. It is not an announcement of product features.