Frequently Asked Questions

Suede charges nothing for registration. You pay the network gas fee on Base or Avalanche mainnet — typically around a cent. Your wallet shows the exact cost before you sign.

No. A Suede registration is not a filing with the U.S. Copyright Office or any government IP office, and it does not carry the legal benefits those filings provide (such as eligibility for statutory damages in U.S. infringement suits). It is a public, timestamped, wallet-signed provenance record. Many creators do both: government registration for legal standing, Suede for organized, verifiable provenance.

No. The registry records your claim — signed and timestamped — but it does not verify the claim, confirm ownership, clear rights, or protect the work from copying. It produces evidence you can point to, whose weight is decided by whoever evaluates it.

No. You need a wallet on Base or Avalanche mainnet and a small amount of ETH or AVAX for gas (around a cent per registration). The registration flow walks you through the rest.

The exact version you intend to stand behind, usually the released master. The record fingerprints the specific file, so a different export is a different fingerprint. If multiple versions matter, register each separately and connect them with derivative links.

The chain stores the fingerprint, claim, contributors, and timestamp — not the file itself. The file lives at the URL you provide, with IPFS preferred for permanence. Public IPFS uploads may be impossible to reverse, so never upload confidential agreements, unreleased material you are not prepared to have public, or personal information.

The filed record is permanent — that is what makes it useful as evidence, and it is also why preparation matters. Document the correction in writing with your collaborators, and where the product supports it, file an updated record; the history of both filings stays visible.

The registry displays conflicting claims with their timestamps; it does not adjudicate them. Register your own claim with your evidence, gather your documentation (files, dates, correspondence, split sheets), and contact us to flag the record. For anything with real money or reputation at stake, talk to an attorney.

You can physically file the record, but you should not: registration does not clear the sample, and you would be signing a public claim over material you do not control. Clear third-party content first.

Not yet. License issuance and verification are temporarily paused during the owner-authorization upgrade. Registration and public verification of existing records remain live. Use the pause to prepare your terms — the Licensing page has a checklist.

No. Registration cannot technically prevent scraping or training. What it creates is a timestamped, signed record of your claim and your declared position — evidence that becomes relevant as attribution, consent, and compensation systems for AI training develop.

Records already filed stay on-chain permanently. But you lose the ability to sign further actions as the original claimant — updates, authorizations, and future licensing. Protect your seed phrase the way you would protect the masters themselves.

The records live on public blockchains (Base and Avalanche mainnet), not on Suede servers. The contract addresses are published in the site footer, and anyone can read the records with a block explorer. Files hosted on IPFS likewise persist independently of Suede.