Stable record identity.
Every registered work receives a House Record ID that remains attached to its public record even if a retailer link, domain, format, or project status later changes.
The House · record discipline
Rights & Provenance
A public, corroborating record around the work: what ULYARC claims, where the authorized work lives, how the record changes, and where permission must be requested.
Ownership on the record.
The record states the creator, rights holder, publisher or authorized-interest relationship ULYARC publicly claims for that work. This is a public claim and provenance entry, not a government adjudication of title.
Authorized route.
The record points visitors toward the official edition, property, or public destination and gives professional rights inquiries a single route back to the identified record.
Changes do not erase the trail.
Record updates are dated. When a destination or status changes, the goal is to preserve the record’s identity and continuing history instead of treating the work as a brand-new object.
What this layer is designed to do
The House is designed to reinforce provenance. It places a dated, crawlable public record around ULYARC works and connects the work to a consistent identifier, creator or rights-holder claim, official destination, record administrator, and rights route. That record can serve as a corroborating record of what ULYARC publicly asserted and maintained at a given point in its own records.
What it does not do
The House does not create copyright, issue a government registration, certify legal ownership, establish first creation by itself, or replace contracts, source files, deposits, assignments, licenses, registration certificates, or other formal chain-of-title evidence.
Public record ≠ public license
A person may view or link to a public House record. That visibility does not itself grant permission to reproduce, distribute, adapt, republish, commercialize, scrape, or otherwise exploit protected expression. Permission must come from applicable law or an express license from the appropriate rights holder.
Source-artifact fingerprints
When an authoritative source or deployment artifact is available, The House may preserve a SHA-256 fingerprint. The fingerprint is a file-identity tool: if a later file produces the same SHA-256 value, it is byte-for-byte identical to the fingerprinted artifact. A hash is not a substitute for authorship evidence or copyright registration.
Formal protection remains separate
For eligible U.S. works, copyright protection generally arises when original authorship is fixed in a tangible medium. Federal registration remains a separate process with separate legal benefits. ULYARC uses The House as an additional recordkeeping and public-notice layer, not as a replacement for that system.
U.S. Copyright Office copyright FAQ ↗ · Copyright Notice, Circular 3 ↗
House law
The work may travel. The record remains.
Each update should strengthen the trail without pretending the trail is something it is not.