{
  "slug": "c2pa-proves-the-camera",
  "title": "Content Credentials prove the camera. They do not prove the photographer.",
  "summary": "C2PA records the device, software and edits. It does not assert which accountable human captured or published the file. Here is the gap and how to close it.",
  "lede": "C2PA is the most serious piece of work the industry has produced on media provenance, and it does exactly what it says: it records which device and which software produced and edited a file. It does not assert that a particular accountable human captured or published it. For most provenance questions that is correct and sufficient. For the ones where money, liberty or a byline is at stake, it is the wrong question.",
  "date": "2026-09-17",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Standards",
  "tags": [
    "C2PA",
    "Content Credentials",
    "provenance",
    "authorship",
    "deepfakes",
    "EU AI Act",
    "media verification"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/C2PA%20Human%20Layer/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/c2pa-proves-the-camera.html",
  "wordcount": 3702,
  "related": [
    "claim-evidence-provenance",
    "identity-failure-map",
    "credential-zombies"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}