Digimarc and DataTrails Partner to Solve the Industry’s Biggest Content Protection Challenge with Advanced Digital Watermarks and Cryptography

Digimarc Corporation, the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking technologies, and DataTrails Inc, an innovator in integrity, transparency, and trust technology, announced a partnership to deliver the industry’s first fully integrated content protection solution to fortify digital content using advanced digital watermarks in tandem with cryptographic proofs, or fingerprints. Combined with provenance metadata, these industry-leading technologies create a powerful, multi-layered toolset to provide proof of digital content authenticity — protecting content creators, businesses, and consumers from the threat of fake data and misinformation.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has changed the rules in content protection. Today, provenance metadata can easily be stripped from a digital asset intentionally or unintentionally when content is distributed or published. For instance, common workflows like uploading an image to a social network, sending a photo via an instant messaging application, or editing an image with a mobile phone app can strip metadata. Without provenance metadata, it is very difficult to prove content authenticity. The partnership between Digimarc and DataTrails addresses this challenge head-on.

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“In an era of GenAI, tools like robust digital watermarks and cryptographic proofs can transform our current digital ecosystem – removing uncertainty and suspicion to create greater authenticity and trust in digital content,” said Digimarc Chief Product Officer Ken Sickles. “This capability is especially relevant and critical in an election year. Today, provenance metadata can be stripped or swapped from digital assets, creating a situation where false certainty is often worse than uncertainty. The solution we are introducing today changes this paradigm. When embedded in a digital asset, digital watermarks act as a tether to retrieve a digital asset’s correct and unaltered metadata or Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) manifest to prove content authenticity.”

Solving the Content Protection Challenge

Committed to collaboration across industries and the public and private sectors, the Digimarc-DataTrails partnership follows the multi-layered approach to conveying digital media transparency set forth in Partnership on AI’s (PAI) Synthetic Media Framework, a first-of-its-kind Framework for the ethical and responsible development, creation, and sharing of synthetic media. PAI is a global non-profit organization that brings together communities from across sectors and industries to advance AI solutions that benefit people and society. One increasingly important leg of the organization’s mission is ensuring the transparency of synthetic and non-synthetic media in an era of GenAI. PAI’s Framework identifies common technical methods for conveying whether a digital asset is AI-generated or AI-modified, based on information about the digital content’s origin or provenance.

SOURCE: Businesswire