# Documentary Rights and Likeness Review Template

> A release review for source media, trademarks, likeness, voice, music, archive, cultural sensitivity, and generated assets.

Canonical: https://onira.studio/templates/documentary-rights-review
Audience: Documentary publishers, producers, agencies, and legal reviewers
Production job: Rights review
Runtime: Pre-publication artifact
Format: Asset and risk register

## Use this brief

Create a rights register for [film/version]. Inventory every visual, audio, text, reference, logo, likeness, voice, quotation, archive item, and third-party asset. Record origin, owner, license or legal basis, restrictions, attribution, territory, term, publication context, evidence file, reviewer, and unresolved risk.

## Required inputs

- Final export, screenplay, source pack, asset list, and generation records
- Licenses, permissions, releases, contracts, and attribution requirements
- Publication territories, platforms, commercial context, and planned reuse
- A qualified legal reviewer for material or jurisdiction-specific risk

## Editorial structure

1. Inventory every external and generated production element.
2. Record provenance, ownership, permission, restriction, and evidence for each item.
3. Review public figures, private people, voices, trademarks, cultural material, and sensitive events separately.
4. Replace, clear, attribute, or escalate every unresolved high-risk item.
5. Approve the exact final export and archive the rights record with that version.

## Acceptance checks

- Do not assume generated output is automatically cleared for every use.
- Do not treat a reference image found online as licensed production material.
- Check provider terms and applicable law at the time and place of publication.
- Keep legal guidance appropriately qualified; this template is an operational aid, not legal advice.

## Visual direction

When a specific likeness, brand, artwork, archive frame, or culturally protected object is not essential, prefer a defensible visual alternative.

## Narration direction

Review quoted speech, impersonation, endorsements, allegations, and living-person claims with the same care as visible likeness.

## Product boundary

- Onira delivers a final MP4; it does not upload or schedule posts on YouTube or social platforms.
- Onira provides a reviewable production workflow; creators remain responsible for approving the story, facts, rights, disclosure, and final publication.
- Director chat is limited to regenerating one selected PREVIEW timeline video clip; other available Studio controls are separate direct actions.
- Creators must review facts, sources, rights, realistic-synthetic-media disclosure, and platform policy before publishing.
- Onira does not guarantee YouTube monetization, reach, factual accuracy, or legal clearance.