# Your Stories Matter

## Protecting Creative Work in the AI Age

The Palimpsest License for Creators

Visual: Diverse creators (poet, painter, musician, storyteller) each protecting their work with glowing shields. Behind them, their creative works flow into a shared tapestry of protected culture.

Timing: 2 min - Opening: "Your grandmother's stories, your poetry about displacement, your music that carries generations of pain and hope—these aren't just data. They're living culture. And AI companies want to feed them into machines without asking, without crediting, without understanding what they mean."

## Amara's Story: When AI Stole Her Voice

Amara, a Nigerian diaspora poet, published "Echoes of Displacement"—a collection exploring her family's forced migration during the Biafran war. It took years to write, filled with her grandmother's memories and her own grief.

Six months later, an AI chatbot was generating cheerful travel poems using her imagery, her metaphors, her pain—stripped of context, sold as content.

She had no legal recourse. Traditional copyright didn't cover AI training.

### This Shouldn't Happen

Your work deserves protection that understands not just ownership, but meaning.

Visual: Split scene. Left: Amara writing poetry by candlelight, emotional depth visible. Right: AI system churning out superficial content using her words, stripped of cultural context. Between them, a broken chain representing lost connection to meaning.

Timing: 3 min - Emphasise emotional impact. This is real harm happening to real creators. Traditional legal frameworks inadequate.

## Your Voice. Your Choice. Your Protection.

"This is a license born not just from copyright, but from care. From narrative debt. From cultural refusal. From emotional fidelity."

### Start Protecting Your Work Today

palimpsest-license.org/creators

creators@palimpsest-license.org

Visual: Community of protected creators, diverse and empowered, standing together with their works shielded but still shared with the world on their terms. Light radiates from their protected works, suggesting both preservation and generative power.

Timing: 2 min - Empowering close. Creators are not powerless. Palimpsest gives tools to protect whilst still sharing.