The Interledger Community 🌱: CLink Media, Inc.

CLink Marketplace with C2PA authentication

Janos Farkas — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:55:51 +0000

Dear All,

Following the C2PA Announcement today CLink has announced a case study of its Marketplace using C2PA authentication. Besides the C2PA implementation, the CLink Marketplace offers other unique features such as rights declaration and transfer (license); publicly accessible ledger for parties, creations, rights and rights transaction; the combination of persistent, cryptographic, and perceptual identifiers; archive to name the most relevant ones.

In addition to the C2PA specification, the marketplace relies on the following ISO standards: JUMBF (ISO 19566), ISNI (ISO 27729), WARC (ISO28500), part of DOI (for Handles) (ISO 26324), and utilizing ISCC (ISO/TC 46/SC 9/WG18).

The Marketplace is using the LCC metadata and identifier framework. The LCC model (or its forerunners indecs and COA) helped frame standard schemas for DOI, ONIX, EIDR, DDEX and PLUS and commercial implementations.

You can see the announcement post containing explainers for the highlighted features here. The Marketplace will be opened for private beta this year. ILP is the target primary payment system.

Any comments, feedbacks are greatly appreciated.

Note: The Marketplace has a forensic level UX for metadata. For example, you can see JUMBF boxes at https://marketplace.clink.id/#JUMBF (the content of the linked page loads in multiple steps showing the progressive levels of the UX).

Best regards
Janos

CLink Media is Representing CEPIC at IPTC

Janos Farkas — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:39:35 +0000

On behalf of CLink Media, Inc. I am excited to represent CEPIC at IPTC. I am honored by the opportunity to contribute to both of these renowned organizations.
https://cepic.org/news/cepic-has-now-two-representatives-at-iptc

Updates on C2PA Spec & CLink Marketplace

Janos Farkas — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 01:13:54 +0000

Wanted to let you that the C2PA draft spec has been updated. Besides the technical spec updates, it also includes new documents for Guidance, Explainer, User Experience, Threat, and Harms. The draft specification can be accessed through the C2PA website, and comments can be provided through a web submission form, through GitHub, or through PM.

We have already implemented several aspects of the new draft in our Marketplace we are developing. See the area below the image of the screenshot in the header and compare it to Section 5.4 of the User Experience document https://c2pa.org/public-draft/UX_Recommendations.html#_non_editorial_transform.

IPTC Photo Metadata Conference

Janos Farkas — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:58:43 +0000

IPTC (The International Press Telecommunications Council) will have its annual Photo Metadata Conference on November 4th. https://iptc.org/events/photo-metadata-conference-2021/
The registration for the whole conference is free: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8716336937567/WN_X1OA_NdXTPqKjh7E6C1dhQ

On a personal note, I will be a panelist and will be discussing the implications of implementing new IPTC XMP fields in CMS, such as WordPress.

Overview on the different initiatives combatting fake media

Janos Farkas — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:01:24 +0000

Leading up to tomorrow’s CEPIC webinar titled “Fighting Fake News As A Business Model” we wrote this brief overview on the different initiatives combatting fake media. http://cepic.org/news/on-the-path-to-build-trust-in-online-content

C2PA Specification Public Draft Release

Janos Farkas — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 13:19:52 +0000

I wanted make the community aware that C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) released today the first Public Draft of its specification.

C2PA unifies the efforts of the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) which focuses on systems to provide context and history for digital media, and Project Origin, a Microsoft- and BBC-led initiative that tackles disinformation in the digital news ecosystem. CLink is an active contributor to C2PA.

You can find the links for the draft and for the feedback forms at https://c2pa.org (bottom of the page). I would be more than happy also take (as a member of the C2PA technical working group) feedback directly from you if you prefer. I am quite familiar with the subject document, spent many hours (in the range of triple digits) participating in the C2PA working groups in the past six months.

If there is an interest, I’d be glad to facilitate a workshop on giving insights and explanations what is covered in the document.

CLink in our GftW grant project is working on the implementation of the C2PA specification with a licensing vertical using ILP. Our goal is to demonstrate a Marketplace for authenticated online content.

CLink Media becomes a member of the Content Authenticity Initiative

Janos Farkas — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:55:17 +0000

CLink Media, Inc. has become a member of the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) – a collaboration launched by Adobe, The New York Times Company, and Twitter last year.

CLink Media intends to contribute to the CAI ecosystem by providing:

ISO-compliant certified archives as a content authentication tool
a comprehensive, interoperable metadata framework capable of facilitating content registrations, assignments, licensing, and monetary transactions for all media types, and
integration of CAI with WordPress CMS through CLink Media’s wpCLink plugins

CLink Media is committed to providing tools for asserting attribution and rights, facilitating legitimate reuse, and monetizing online content globally.

CLink will Present with the New York Times and Adobe on Content Authenticity at CEPIC

Janos Farkas — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:47:23 +0000

The CEPIC technology webinar will provide an introduction to innovative tools that preserve the integrity of digital visual content, from provenance to authorship.

SPEAKERS:
Scott Lowenstein, R&D strategist at the New York Times
Andy Parsons, Director, Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe
Janos Farkas, Founder & CEO at CLink Media

CLink will present its content authentication technology and related infrastructure (also introduced to this community).

CLink is committed to providing tools for asserting attribution and rights, facilitating legitimate reuse, and monetizing online content globally.