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AI copyright infringement Start with proof of what you published.

If AI tools use your work, the first problem is proof. Encypher signs each piece as you publish, with your terms inside it. Later, a copy that keeps the mark can be checked against that dated record.

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A record for your counsel, not legal advice or a verdict.

Content marked with rights terms, then a formal notice, then a crawler using the content after notice. Past a dashed line, a small gray gavel labelled For counsel and courts shows that outcomes are for courts, not the mark.
Marked work, a formal notice, then use after notice. What follows is for counsel and courts.
Dated
Each piece is signed when you publish it.
Terms inside
Your terms travel in copies that keep the mark. Stripped or rewritten copies may carry none.
Per sentence
Copied sentences can be traced to the article they came from.
Free for publishers
Signing is free, and you keep all of your licensing revenue.

Why an AI detector does not help

Provenance reads back a signed record: signed by Town Daily, made with AI: no, unchanged since signing. Detection runs unsigned text through an AI detector and returns a guess, such as 72 percent likely AI.
Provenance is a record anyone can check. Detection is a guess with a score.

An AI detectorAI detector: A model that guesses whether content was made by AI and returns a probability, not proof. guesses whether text looks machine-made. Your question is different: is this your work? Only provenanceContent provenance: The record of where a piece of content came from and how it changed, carried with the content itself., a record made when you published, can answer that.

AI detectors vs proof

What the record lets you show

A file holds a signed label in four layers: who signed it, what they declared including AI use, a fingerprint of the content, and a signature that seals them together.
The label sits inside the file. It names the signer, carries what they declared, fingerprints the content, and is sealed by a signature.
What and when
The exact text you published, and the date you signed it.
Your terms
The rights terms you signed with the work.
A match
Whether a copy matches your text word for word.
Which sentences
Which sentences were copied. This sentence-levelSentence-level attribution: Checking that one sentence came from a specific signed source unchanged, even when it is quoted on its own. layer is patent-pending.

Notice and willfulness

US statutory damages per work, for works registered in time, 17 U.S.C. 504(c) and 412
  • Innocent, lowest$200
  • Ordinary, highest$30,000
  • Willful, highest$150,000

Source: 17 U.S.C. 504(c) and 412. Generally, register before infringement begins; for infringement beginning after first publication, registration within three months of first publication preserves eligibility. Counsel assesses statutory exceptions. The court sets the amount.

In the US, statutory damagesStatutory damages: Damages set by law per infringed work, under 17 U.S.C. 504(c), with no need to prove actual loss. for a work registered in time can rise if the use was willfulWillful infringement: Copyright infringement done knowingly. US law allows up to $150,000 in statutory damages per work.. Terms in copies that keep the mark, plus a formal noticeFormal notice: Documentation that tells a user a work is protected and which terms apply, which matters for willfulness. you send, make "we did not know it was yours" hard to claim. Your counsel decides what that supports.

The legal background, with sources

What it costs

Publishers sign and check free, within fair use. You keep 100% of any licensing revenue. Encypher does not take a share of your deals.

Start in three steps

  1. Connect

    Add the WordPress or Ghost plugin, or call the APIAPI: Application programming interface: a way for one program to ask another to do a job, such as sign a file..

  2. Publish

    Each article is signed with your terms as it goes live.

  3. Check copies

    Paste any copy you find into the public checker.

    Open the checker

For engineers

Show the technical detail

Each signed article carries a C2PA manifestC2PA manifest: The signed label itself: a small package inside a file that records who signed it, what they declared and how to check it. with your identity, a timestamp, a hash of the text and a link to your rights policy in W3C ODRL. Each sentence can also be signed, so a copied sentence verifies on its own.

Anyone can repeat a check through the public verify endpoint, with no account.

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