Canonical policy question · Content integrity

Should watermarking standards be mandatory?

Open provenance standards such as C2PA already exist. The dispute is whether law should require them or leave adoption voluntary.

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Current statecontested

Policy asks

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adopted

Adopt open content-provenance standards such as C2PA Content Credentials

Use open technical specifications for content provenance and authenticity assertions in synthetic-media governance.

Policy vehicles

Where the asks appear

guidance · Published (voluntary)

C2PA Content Credentials technical specification

Open technical standard for attaching and validating content provenance assertions.

Policy lineage

Events and deadlines

2025-01-01
C2PA publishes technical specification 2.3
C2PA Specification 2.3 defines the Content Credentials provenance standard.

Evidence ledger

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C2PA specifies a technical standard for content provenance and authenticity

The specification states C2PA developed a technical standard for providing content provenance and authenticity.

To address this issue at scale … the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has developed this technical specification for providing content provenance and authenticity.

Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity · C2PA Specification 2.3 · §1.1

Intelligence records

Reported developments

United States · Technical standard

C2PA’s Content Credentials remain the open provenance baseline

C2PA Specification 2.3 defines a technical standard for content provenance and authenticity. Whether governments should mandate it is a separate ask.