Rights — what exists in a skill set, who holds it, and what the register records.

A skill set is what is made of a skill.

You own your skill, always and forever. A skill is a way of working, and it stays with the person whose it is. No paper signed here reaches it.

A skill set is what is made of the skill: the recorded session, the converted paper, the taught package. Even Steven owns what is made, on every track, for the person or company the skill came from. The skill is the person's; the skill set is Even Steven's; Tacit Tessera gives it a number, a Card and a tile, licenses it, counts every use, and lets anyone check the number. A Card reads in that order — Collected by, then Owned by Even Steven, then Licensed by Tacit Tessera — and the number sits beside the person's name, never instead of it.

What a skill set is not: it is not the person, it is not their competence, and it is not property in a method. A way of working is not property. Why the law reads that way is set out on the legal position; here it is enough that the register never claims otherwise.

A Set — family 0 in the number — gathers other numbers, and it is one of three kinds. A Mosaic is a shelf: each member keeps its own number, count, name and withdrawal. A composite is one derived artefact made from named members. Each member is recorded with its share in the ledger and on the licensee's paper, and a member leaves at the composite's next edition, on a date stated before anyone signs. A share is never written on a page. An Evaluation set holds the scenarios a machine is tested against, on the Machine track only.

The register documents. It does not warrant title, and it does not adjudicate.

This register records what was asserted, who asserted it, on what date, and what evidence was produced with it. It records that it has not tested the assertion.

Against every number it records the asserted rights, the evidence filed, the consents held and the licensing history. The rights record runs on its own axis — recorded → declared → documented — beside the lifecycle a licensee sees, and the two are never joined into one ladder. The public status word is Specified. Nothing is issued.

Every number carries an append-only event history, from created to retired, with every assertion, licence, challenge and withdrawal in between. Each entry is sealed and the day's head is anchored, and the history is not rewritten. Where a Source is a company, the Card carries it coded and the register holds the code map: the name is withheld; it is not absent. No claim is made anywhere that a record has been cleared of its identifiers.

It does not decide who owns anything. A question of title between an employer and a person, or between a contractor and a customer, is decided where such questions are decided, and this register's record is evidence in it and nothing more. A challenge to a number is recorded, not removed: challenge, freeze, review, resolution, appeal, supersession, and one more state for common knowledge asserted. A freeze means no new licence and no new edition; a job already underway finishes. Nothing contested is deleted. The register records; it does not decide.

Three things are this register's own acts, and it answers for them: the count, what the count computes, and the stop. Three things are not this register's to answer for: who owns the work, whether a copy exists elsewhere, and what a model retains. A check shows that this number, this edition and this seal are the ones the register issued, and that the copy checked is untouched. It does not establish ownership, and it does not establish that no copy exists anywhere else. Its seal can be checked at tacittessera.com/verify.

No instrument gives the holder of a record a right in it.

No instrument surveyed gives the holder of a record of a person working any positive entitlement in it: no right to exclude, no right to be paid for another's use, no term. The person in the record is protected because they are identifiable in it, not because they made what is in it. The technique is not a work, and it is not a secret unless it is kept one. The instruments and the readings behind those sentences are on the legal position, and this page does not restate them.

What follows for the party in the middle is short. An employer, a contractor, a practice, a maker or a licensee holds no right in a skill set by default. Every right any party holds here is a right a paper gives them — the person's paper with Even Steven, the licence with Tacit Tessera, the conditions carried on the Card — and where the paper is silent, nobody holds anything. That is why the promise is built rather than claimed, and why the rest of this page is about papers.

Four consents, each given and ended on its own.

There are four separable consents: to be recorded, to be combined with others, to run under the person's name, and to be used to train a model. Each is given and withdrawn on its own. Refusing one does not end the others, and a person may give the first three, refuse the fourth, and everything else on this register still holds.

A consent is not a licence. A consent can be withdrawn; that is what makes it a consent. It is read at the moment of recording and never reaches back: a permission given today does not cover a session recorded before it.

The person's paper is with Even Steven — not their employer, and not Tacit Source. They sign in their own seat, on their own machine, on their own time. An employer that gives a release signs its own paper, described at 06, and neither paper stands in for the other.

The fourth consent is the foundation of the learning licence. It is given per person per set, and a licence carries it only where that person has given it; where the fourth consent is refused, no learning licence issues for that set. It ends on the dated rule at 05.

Three licence kinds, each with a term, a field of use and a territory.

Three licence kinds are offered: execution, learning and derivative. Each carries a term, a field of use and a territory. The paper says which kind it is, and the withdrawal rule follows the kind.

Execution is the right to run a skill set — a job, a serve, a machine. It is metered as the register already meters: the count is the economic record, one signed row read from both ends, and the rate lives on Even Steven's covenant and never on a page. Its withdrawal is one sentence, and the stop can be checked: It stops for new work at once; a job already underway finishes.

Learning is the right to use a skill set to build a model, inside the term, the field of use and the territory. Its foundation is the fourth consent, given per person per set. A licensee trains its model under it, and what it builds from is a named, numbered, sealed edition, pinned — never a corpus. Its withdrawal is a date rather than a check: Material used to build a model comes out at the model's next revision, and that date is stated to the person before they sign.

Derivative is the right to build and sell a derived model. The register records the ancestry the licensee declares against the edition it built from, and makes no finding about it: a recorded declaration, not a verdict. It ends on the same dated rule as a learning licence.

The register never claims a model has forgotten anyone. A right to withdraw can be honoured in a database, in a retrieval index, in a small model, and in anything kept separately addressable. It cannot be honoured, in any way a second party can check, in a large generative model built the ordinary way. So the execution promise is a stop that can be checked, the learning and derivative promise is a date stated before signing, and the paper says which is which. There are two true dates, and the withdrawal itself stays on file.

A contributor may put conditions on what is made of their skill: the field of use a set may be run in, the territory it may be run in, and no use for surveillance. A contributor may refuse any use where a machine runs unattended. A contributor may keep a set away from any named use or any house. The conditions are on Even Steven's paper, and the register carries them on the Card and in the licence, so they travel with every copy. A condition is a promise between two parties. It does not follow the record.

An employer's rights, a client's confidence, a third party's material, and what was already known.

Four things can sit inside a record of a person working that are not the person's to give and not the register's to license. They are treated the way every open question here is treated: the question, the fact that it is open, and what is built.

The question. Whose is a recording made on an employer's machine, on an employer's property, in an employer's time? Whose documents are a practice's files? What in a career's records is a client's confidence or a third party's material? And what in it was already generally known, so that nobody holds it?

It is open. Who owns a capture record is an open question of Canadian law, and this register asserts an answer in neither direction. Whose documents a practice's files are is open too, and it is set out on the legal position. A client's confidence, a third party's material and what was already generally known are not open questions; they are simply not ours to give, and no paper signed here reaches them.

What is built. Before a number is issued, a rights intake asks who the employer was, who owned the equipment, whose property the capture happened on, what confidential information, third-party documents or customer information the record carries, and what restrictions an existing contract puts on it. It ends in one of four outcomes: clear, requires a release, private only, or cannot register. Where capture happens on an employer's machine or property, a written employer release is a condition of issue.

The intake is not a product, and none of its outcomes is a status word: the one public status word stays Specified. An outcome of private only issues a real number with a closed Book entry; an outcome of cannot register issues nothing. An employer release is the employer's paper and does not replace the person's consent, which is still theirs to give and to end with Even Steven. Nothing is issued until the intake is complete. What is brought and what is never taken is on Bring your records.

One statute pays for secret know-how, and confers no property in it.

One statute in the world pays a worker for secret, non-patentable know-how. A German statute on employee inventions, still in force, gives a worker a claim to reasonable compensation where a technical suggestion that cannot be patented gives the employer a preferential position, from the moment the employer uses it, and the claim cannot be waived in advance. It pays the worker because they contributed, not because they own.

The limit belongs in the same breath. That statute confers no property right. It is a claim to money against one employer; it cannot be sold, licensed or asserted against anybody else, and it falls away when the technique becomes generally known. A legal system can pay for secret know-how. That is not the same as owning it — and it is the shape this register is built to: the person is paid because they contributed, what is made of the skill is what is owned, and the count is what is paid on. The statute is read on the legal position; it appears here once.