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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.

  1. S01
    Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability

    official legal report / published 2025-01-29 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    C2PA Technical Specification 2.4

    current technical standard / published 2026-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-10

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