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C2PA (Content Credentials)
Open technical standard for content provenance and authenticity, backed by Adobe, Microsoft, and others.
Overview
The leading open standard for content provenance, critical for addressing the authenticity crisis.
Details
- Website
- https://c2pa.org/
- Pricing model
- Core product free — open standard, no licensing fees
- Platform
- Technical standard (implemented by Adobe, Microsoft, and others)
- Privacy relevance
- Provides a standardised way to trace content origin and editing history, supporting authenticity
- Strengths
- Open standard, cross-industry support, cryptographically signed provenance, applicable to multiple media types
- Limitations
- Voluntary adoption; can be stripped from content; requires creator cooperation
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-25