A licensed image enters an AI workflow, gets transformed, and comes out as something new. Somewhere along the way, the clean connection between “we were allowed to use this” and “this is what we made with it” can disappear. That is the part provenance should preserve. Not just the license. The actual path: which asset went in, what happened to it, where the result went, and what came out the other side. Because six months later, nobody wants to dig through Slack, API logs, and old folders just to answer a basic question: How did this output get here? The license gives the source permission to enter. Provenance keeps it from vanishing from the story.