Asset rights receipts

A rights receipt for an asset at a public URL: Rightshold fetches the asset's bytes once, hashes them, and records the license signals those bytes carry — SPDX-License-Identifier markers, named license texts, and copyright lines — on a public receipt sealed to the ledger. Anyone can re-fetch the URL, re-hash the bytes and check the receipt against them.

A receipt records signals; it asserts no license and no verdict. Signals found do not grant any use, and no signals found does not mean an asset is unlicensed — it means only that these bytes carried none of the listed signals when fetched. Whether a use is permitted is a license question: check_license answers those.

Issue one

curl -s "https://www.rightshold.com/v1/asset-rights"

That index names the issue form: POST /v1/asset-rights with a JSON body naming the asset's public url — one call fetches the bytes, records their signals and seals the receipt.

Assets on the record

Machine-readable: GET /v1/asset-rights · the account Rights Receipt (a use cleared, with a verdict) is a different instrument: rights-receipt/1.