# Avatar Standard & Licensing #### Programmable Identity Visual Sovereignty introduces the concept of the Programmable Avatar. Through Artifex, creators can set specific parameters for how their digital personas are used by third parties. This creates a new economy of "Fractional Performance." **The Licensing Engine** * **Permissioned Access:** Creators can grant temporary access to their Vanguard Model for specific projects, such as a localized advertisement in a foreign market or a cameo in a digital film. * **Automated Royalties:** Because Artifex is built on a decentralized framework, licensing fees and usage royalties are settled instantly in $AFX. There are no intermediaries; the value flows directly from the user to the sovereign owner of the identity. **Scalable Presence**\ Visual Sovereignty allows you to be "omnipresent." You can authorize your avatar to deliver a keynote in Tokyo, a training session in London, and a sales pitch in New York—all simultaneously, in different languages, while you maintain full oversight of the narrative from the Studio Editor. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.afxtoken.xyz/3.-visual-sovereignty/avatar-standard-and-licensing.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.