Guilds negotiated the clauses. TrustMark makes them machine-readable.
SAG-AFTRA, WGA, and DGA have negotiated strong AI authorization requirements into their contracts — territory limits, training restrictions, usage caps, and approval workflows. The clauses are clear and the intent is shared. TrustMark is the technical layer that translates those contract clauses into machine-readable rules that AI pipelines can actually follow — giving guilds verifiable compliance, audit exports that map to contract language, and infrastructure that extends protection beyond the studio relationship to external AI systems that aren’t party to any deal.
160K+
SAG-AFTRA members affected
3
Guild negotiations requiring AI authorization (DGA, SAG, WGA)
4
US states with digital likeness laws
What TrustMark Does For Guilds & Unions
Union-Ready Compliance Profiles
TrustMark compliance profiles map directly to union contract clauses. Territory limits, usage caps, duration rules, training restrictions, and authorization requirements become machine-readable parameters — not just legal text. The Union-Ready profile includes mandatory checkpoints for role and script approval, a final output review window, and a hard separation of training rights from render rights. Distribution holds are supported for active disputes.
Bulk Member Registration
Unions can onboard members in bulk through the TrustMark API. Each member gets an Identity Vault with guild-level default authorization settings. Members can tighten their own restrictions at any time. No member can have their settings loosened without their explicit approval.
ScriptModule — Built for the WGA
ScriptModule extends TrustMark to written works — giving writers the same authorization infrastructure that covers faces, voices, and motion. Writers register scripts with a unique fingerprint. Any AI system that wants to access, analyse, summarise, or train on that work must request explicit authorization first. TRAINING_USE is a separate right — and it defaults to no. Every access is logged permanently — giving writers visibility and studios a clean provenance trail.
Two-Layer Authorization — For Every Member
Layer 1 controls whether a member’s identity is even visible to an AI system. Layer 2 controls per-project usage — which studio, which rights, which territory, for how long. Both layers are revocable at any time. A member can be invisible to all AI apps by default and selectively visible only to verified studios.
Emergency Revocation — Shared Safety Mechanism
Emergency revocation stops unauthorized AI use of a member’s identity — it never breaks valid licenses. If a member licensed their identity to a studio for two years, that agreement is honored. It targets external threats: unauthorized deepfakes, synthetic replacements, post-acquisition misuse. Anyone in the authorized chain — members, agents, studios, and guild representatives — can trigger it when they detect unauthorized use.
Audit Export for Contract Compliance
Guild auditors can pull compliance bundles — token histories, receipts, and revocation records — in a format that maps directly to contract clauses. Machine-readable records for human review and resolution.
Build a Branded Member Portal
Guilds can build a fully branded member portal on top of TrustMark’s open API. Members manage authorization settings alongside union cards, dues, and contract terms — without rebuilding the authorization engine from scratch. TrustMark provides the infrastructure. The guild provides the interface. Agents and managers can also access the portal through delegation — managing authorization for their roster of members, approving token requests, reviewing audit logs, and triggering emergency revocation when they detect unauthorized use.
How It Works For Guilds & Unions
Integrate TrustMark API into your member portal
The guild connects TrustMark’s API to their existing member management system. Members manage authorization settings alongside union cards, dues, and contract terms.
Set guild-level compliance defaults
The union sets baseline Union-Ready compliance profiles that reflect current contract terms. Members inherit these defaults but can tighten restrictions on their own Identity Vaults at any time.
Onboard members in bulk
Bulk registration via the API. Each member gets an Identity Vault with the guild’s default authorization settings. No individual setup required.
Audit and verify
Guild auditors pull compliance bundles at any time. Token histories, receipts, and revocation logs map directly to contract clauses for compliance review.
WGA — Studio secures TRAINING_USE. Fully documented.
A writer registers their screenplay through ScriptModule. Verifiable record created.
Studio requests SCRIPT_READ access for development. The writer approves.
Studio later needs SCRIPT_TRAINING_USE — sends a structured request with terms and compensation.
Writer reviews the terms in their vault and approves. The authorization is logged permanently.
Studio now has a clear, permanent record proving the training use was fully authorized.
SAG-AFTRA — 50,000 members onboarded. Compliance auto-verified.
Guild integrates TrustMark API into existing member portal
50,000 members onboarded with Union-Ready default authorization profiles
Studio requests token for 200 members for a dubbing campaign
Compliance profile auto-verifies territory limits and confirms authorization scope
Guild auditor pulls compliance bundle — all render receipts mapped to contract clauses for review
What Guilds & Unions Get
- Union-Ready compliance profiles mapped to contract clauses
- Bulk member registration with guild-level defaults
- ScriptModule — verifiable script registration, AuthorshipReceipts, TRAINING_USE separation
- Two-layer authorization for every member (visibility + per-project usage)
- Emergency revocation — stops unauthorized use, available to everyone in the authorized chain
- Agent delegation model for talent representation
- Audit export for contract compliance review
- Open API to build a fully branded member portal
- Dispute workflows with distribution hold support