A statement only carries weight once someone can find it. The registry becomes the place where you look up a production and see what its makers recorded about their use of AI.
Anyone wondering how a film was made should not have to ask permission.
Searching and reading the registry costs nothing and needs no account. That holds for audiences, journalists, festival programmers and researchers as much as for broadcasters and distributors. Everything in the registry is fully visible to everyone.
You look up a production and see at a glance what was declared per stage: where no AI was involved, where it served as a tool, and where generated material reached the final result.
Statements stay available. If a new version is published, the earlier one remains readable. A statement from 2026 can still be consulted ten years from now, and it stays clear what was said when.
A single statement in an email attachment helps the producer who sends it. But someone wondering how a film came about has no idea where to look, or whether anything was declared at all. Without a place to find it, transparency stays a matter between two parties.
The registry turns scattered statements into a reference work. For a festival programmer working through a hundred submissions. For a journalist checking a claim. For a producer who wants to show they are open about their process without having to send another email each time. And for audiences, who can then look for themselves instead of having to take someone's word for it.
Once the registry exists, you finish the form with a single button: publish. No separate submission afterwards.