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THE SIGNAL
SECTION 17
ISSUE 001
OBSERVEDpolicynowconfidence / high
Human Authorship Receipts
Give creators an optional authorship receipt that records selection, arrangement, revision, performance, and transformation without exposing private drafts. The receipt cannot decide copyright by itself. It can make the human contribution inspectable, preserving evidence of process when a finished artifact no longer reveals how judgment shaped it.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
The U.S. Copyright Office centers perceptible human authorship; C2PA provides a technical format for recording creation and edit history.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability
official legal report / published 2025-01-29 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02C2PA Technical Specification 2.4
current technical standard / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10