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Rights before pixels

Media rights & integrity

ICU keeps source identity, rights review, runtime delivery, derivatives, captions, provenance, and failure states separate. A source link is evidence. It is not permission to hotlink or silently transform an image.

What the current deployment contains

This R000072 audit inventories 296 local image/audio media files. 65 are mapped to reviewed/eligible rights or media-governance records, 12 more are preserved as existing O037 procedural media with a deliberately unnormalized reuse boundary, and 219 stay visible as existing runtime assets but are held from new derivative/publication decisions until a rights mapping exists.

The deployment has no remote runtime image/audio/video references in its HTML/CSS/JS media paths. The global CSP remains strict rather than being widened for visual completeness.

Publication firewall

New documentary media must have a stable source identity, reviewed rights basis, representation label, same-origin localized bytes, SHA-256, MIME type, dimensions where relevant, accessibility text, provenance, and any derivative/change notice. If those gates cannot be met, the correct state is held, reference-only, or localization-deferred.

Documentary versus generated

Documentary/source media, ICU originals, explanatory visualizations, and generated or illustrative media are not interchangeable. The current ASEU Hooke rendition is labeled documentary and carries CC BY 4.0 attribution. BVU’s current subject visuals remain source-backed explanatory visualizations, not copied documentary images.

When acquisition fails

ICU keeps the caption, source, rights state, and useful text available rather than inserting an unreviewed remote image. A missing documentary asset may stay record-only while an already approved local visualization remains in place. Failed acquisition never relaxes CSP.

Integrity and duplicate handling

Media bytes are fingerprinted with SHA-256. Content-addressed assets must match the hash encoded in their filename. Duplicate bytes are reported instead of deleted automatically because two paths can have different compatibility or route obligations.

Effective / last updated: September 15, 2026. This page describes the governance contract in this integration candidate; it does not grant new reuse rights for assets whose rights state is unmapped or held.