Watermarks and Fingerprints as Soft Bindings for Content Provenance: An Open-Licence Benchmark for Images, Audio and Video
Content-provenance standards such as C2PA let a platform recover a stripped manifest through a soft binding: an invisible watermark read from the content, or a fingerprint looked up in a registry. We benchmarked both families under one protocol, restricted to openly available models whose licences we audited, on public...