D DEED
DEED FOR ESTATES

A LEGACY THAT HOLDS.

Every work, every deal and every permission the creator granted, on one record the estate can actually run.

THE SITUATION

An estate inherits a legacy and a paperwork problem. Contracts in folders, permissions in emails, editions in memory, and a growing queue of requests for uses the creator never lived to answer.

The estates that keep a legacy alive treat it as a working archive. Every request answered with a record, every licence with a term, every permission with a signature that lives longer than an inbox.

THE RISKS

WHAT BREAKS.

01
LOST PERMISSIONS
Grants the creator made informally that no one can now confirm or deny.
02
CATALOGUE GAPS
Works whose authorship, dates or editions cannot be proven from the available paperwork.
03
AI USE OF LIKENESS
Voice, image and style used to generate new work with no signed baseline to point to.
04
PUBLISHER REVERSIONS MISSED
Contracts whose reversion triggers came and went without the estate claiming rights back.
05
MULTI HEIR DISAGREEMENT
Rights split between heirs with no shared record of what has been licensed, to whom, and for what.
HOW DEED HELPS

FOUR STEPS.

01DROP

Upload the catalogue, every contract you can find and every pending request.

02EXAMINE

Deed builds a working record of what is owned, what is licensed and what has been asked for.

03EXECUTE

Signed licences, permission letters and heir agreements handled through one link.

04DEFEND

AI use, unauthorised republishing and expired licences answered with a numbered record.

QUESTIONS
+Where do we start with decades of paperwork?
With whatever you have. Deed reads what you upload, flags gaps, and lets you close them one signable link at a time.
+How do we handle AI use of the creator's voice or likeness?
Set the estate's baseline explicitly. Deed's terms block synthetic use by default and let the estate price any exception.
+What about heirs who disagree?
Deed's heir agreement records who can approve what, so licences are not held hostage to a single unreachable heir.

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Publishing deals that keep options you want to keep, and AI training answered explicitly, not by default.
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Splits signed the day the song is made, masters on record, and money that arrives where it should.
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Every work numbered and on record, so a copy, a derivative or a claim is answered with proof.
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