Correcting a closed scene

A closed scene is sealed, not frozen. Sealing means a change is recorded rather than made quietly. It does not mean the record can never be corrected again.

Three corrections come up often enough to be built in: a depiction published after the scene closed, a new place an existing depiction appears, and a copy of the depiction that was never on file. You make all three yourself.

Adding a depiction after close#

Open the closed scene and use Add a depiction to this closed scene, in the Production Media and Locations card. It is the form you already know, with one extra field.

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   Select the content file

   The file is hashed in your browser and a reduced copy is kept by Easy2257 as the copy of the depiction the regulations require. Images are downscaled before they upload; video needs to be under 500 MB, and a low-quality export is fine.

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   Say why it is being added after close

   "Why is this being added after close?" takes a sentence: what arrived late, and why. Ten characters is the minimum, and a real sentence is the point. It is recorded word for word on the audit trail, as your statement. Easy2257 records it; it does not judge it.

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   Save

   The depiction lands on the record with its URLs, its digests and your statement. If the upload is interrupted, the row shows Copy upload incomplete and a Finish the copy upload button: select the same file again rather than adding the depiction a second time. Deleting is not offered afterwards, because a depiction on a sealed record stays on it.

Changing where content is published#

Published URLs live on the depiction, and each depiction carries its own list, up to fifty addresses. The URLs button on a depiction's row shows how many are recorded and opens that list: add a place the content now appears, remove one that has come down. A depiction always keeps at least one address, so the last one on the list has no Remove next to it. If the only place a piece of content was published has come down, replace the address rather than emptying the list.

No statement is asked for and none is needed. Lists of addresses change for ordinary reasons: a mirror goes up, a licence ends, a platform moves its content. Edit them as often as the truth changes, before or after the scene closes. Every change is recorded on the audit trail either way.

Scenes recorded before URLs moved onto depictions may show a short list under "Recorded before URLs were attached to depictions" at the foot of the card. Those can be removed, and nothing new is added to them. New addresses go on the depiction they belong to.

One exception to all of this: a cancelled scene is not a closed scene, and it takes no edits at all.

Reissuing your sealed package#

A correction changes the live record. It does not reach into the package and the certificate you already generated, which describe the record as it stood the day you finalized the production. Easy2257 does not rewrite them quietly, and it does not reissue them for you.

The production's archive page notices the difference instead. When the record has moved since the package was sealed, the page shows what changed and offers to build a new one.

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   Open the production's archive page

   The card at the top reads "The record has changed since this package was sealed", with the date it was sealed and a list of what has changed since.

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   Add a note, if it helps

   An optional note, up to 500 characters, is written inside the new package. A line naming what the correction was is usually worth the ten seconds.

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   Reissue

   Reissue sealed package builds a new archive from the record as it stands and mints a new certificate against it. The new package's SHA-256 is shown on screen. Reload the page and the package is in Downloads.

The card appears only when there is something to reissue. If nothing has changed since the seal, there is nothing to rebuild. If a scene is still open, a scene has no attestation on record, or a document or identity check is still outstanding, the card says which of those it is in place of the button: finish that first, then reissue. A removal request on the production also holds a reissue, and that one the card does not show: the button is there and the reissue is refused until the request is resolved.

There are two waiting periods. A package can be reissued an hour after the one that currently stands was built. If the only thing that has changed since then is the published URL list, that waits a day, because an address list that changes weekly would otherwise produce a package a week. The message tells you how long is left.

What supersession means#

Nothing is thrown away when you reissue.

The previous package is kept, and its digest is recorded inside the new one, so what you sealed before is still accounted for. The archive page offers the package that stands rather than the older one, so download the new package once the reissue finishes.

The previous certificate stays on file too, keeping its identifier and its dates. It still passes an offline signature check, which is what a platform holding a copy will run. Checked against Easy2257 it comes back superseded rather than valid, pointing at the certificate that replaced it. That is the honest answer: it was real when it was issued, and a newer one now stands.

That is deliberate. A record of what you held, and when, is worth more than a record that only ever shows the latest state.

Revoked means something else, and reissuing never causes it. A certificate is revoked when a removal request is actioned against the production, which is covered in removals and takedowns. A revoked certificate blocks reissue rather than resulting from it.

Platforms linked to the production are told once, through the same notification they already receive when a production is documented. There is nothing extra for you to send them.

Corrections this does not cover#

Deleting a depiction, changing a closed scene's title, date or location, cancelling a closed scene, and adding a scene to a sealed production all stop at the seal. If one of those is what needs to change, contact support with what needs correcting and why. It is recorded on the record and the sealed package is reissued with it, so the outcome has the same shape as everything above: the change is on the record, and the record says who made it and when.