The Interledger Community 🌱: Janos Farkas

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.

Web Monetization for Authenticated Content and Rightsholders — Grant Report #1

Janos Farkas — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 22:02:11 +0000

Project Update

Glad to report that we leaped ahead towards our goals.

2021 has brought has shown a significant traction in content monetization though the Non Fungible Token (NFT) ecosystem. NFT’s reached sales of over $10 Billion in Q3 2001. In spite of their financial surge the current NFT marketplaces bear many deficiencies; rely in large degree on unsubstantiated (blind) trust that leaves participants exposed to loss from: (i)unauthenticated assets, (ii) actors who's identity are not independently verified, (iii) lack of persistent or verifiable bindings between the NFTs and the assets, to name a few. We have demonstrated solutions for these issues and some others and will feature those to the community in our SkillShare presentation this month (to be announced).

Note: In May 2021 Stefan Thomas CEO of Coil has announced Rafiki: An All-In-One Solution for Interledger Wallets. The implication of this development freed up resources from our end and enabled us to extend the application of our project to the NFT ecosystem.

Progress on objectives

Legitimate commerce relies on identifying and authenticating the products, buyers, authorized sellers and providing record of the transaction. There are no globally accessible tools for open commerce for online content that address authentication and details of ownership or usage rights conveyed with digital objects. It is the ambitious - may be even perceived as monumental - mission of CLink Media, Inc. (CLink) to create these tools.

The project has three stages:

(1) Implementation of the forthcoming standard being development by developed by the Coalition of Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). "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 contributing member of C2PA. The public draft specification was released on September 1, 2021. We are in the process of implementing the draft specification.

(2) Metadata integration. To ensure rightsholders’ content is properly attributed, and its uses tracked, content and rights metadata will be connected to the CLink platform. The platform provides a comprehensive interoperable identifier and metadata framework using the DOA ledger technology - powering perhaps the largest content registry network DOI today, and a schema implementing the models of the Linked Content Coalition (LCC). Together these can integrate metadata from any source.
Infrastructure
We have created a Distributed network for the CLink platform with clusters in Austin (TX), Hillsborough (OR), Montreal (CA) and Strasbourg (FR). The clusters are combination of on-premise (Austin), hosted bare metal (Hillsborough, Montreal) and public cloud (Strasbourg) infrastructures.
Metadata and identifier framework
Successfully demonstrated the integration of “external” JSON schemas (a/k/a type objects) for Value Sets and JavaScript validation for the objects in their lifecycle. This task was essential for a highly scalable interoperable ledger.

(3) CMS integration. To make these services easily available, integration through the CLink plugin to the WordPress CMS (powering over 42% of the Web today).
All features of our platform is accessible though our WordPress plugin which has been regularly updated during the course of the project.

Note: Will request a (no-cost) extension due to the timeline of Rafiki and due to the complexity of C2PA implementation.

Key activities

C2PA participation
Contributed to the C2PA working group task forces and to the public draft of the specification.

JPEG participation
We are a member of JPEG AH Groups on Fake Media and NFT.

Communications and marketing

Our fist application related to images. Accordingly, we have focused our communications and marketing in the imagery domain.

We have become the member of the world largest trade organization (CEPIC) in the imagery industry.

We wrote an article tilted "On the path to build trust in online content" that is published by CEPIC.

We are giving a presentation titled NFT Issues and Solutions at the JPEG NFT Workshop on October 12, 2021
Note: JPEG stands for "The Joint Photographic Experts Group". JPEG is a joint working group of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

I was invited in the panel discussion at IPTC Photo Metadata Conference on November 4, 20210
Note: IPTC stands for "The International Press Telecommunications Council"

What’s next?

(a) Implement C2PA specification. Technology oriented readers may appreciate that this task involves fairly advanced skills for handling JPEG Universal Metadata Box Format (JUMBF), Core Deterministic Encoding Requirements (CBOR) implementing tools for facilitating CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE) for digital signatures.

(b) Full implementation of the JavaScript validated “external” JSON schemas.

Note: CMS implementation is integral parts of all three steps above therefore it is not broken out separately.

What community support would benefit your project?

We would like to work with beta testers running WordPress powered sites.

Additional comments

Please join us at the JPEG Workshop and at our SkillShare presentation this month (to be annouced).

Relevant links/resources (optional)

Summary of Links directly related to our contributions:
https://c2pa.org/membership
http://cepic.org/news/clink-is-a-new-member-of-cepic
http://cepic.org/news/on-the-path-to-build-trust-in-online-content
https://jpeg.org/items/20210928_2nd_jpeg_nft_workshop_announcement.html
https://iptc.org/events/photo-metadata-conference-2021

NFT Issues and Solutions

Janos Farkas — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:43:40 +0000

I am excited to let the community know that I will be giving a talk on "NFT Issues and Solutions" at JPEG NFT Workshop on October 12. See announcement at https://jpeg.org/items/20210928_2nd_jpeg_nft_workshop_announcement.html

We will introduce the Marketplace we are working on and touch on our target payment system which will be ILP (Rafiki).

Update: The announcement now includes the Zoom link. Hope some of you can make it.

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 is a new member of CEPIC

Janos Farkas — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:21:13 +0000

We are proud to announce to be a new member of CEPIC.
(CEPIC is the world's largest trade organization for imagery) http://cepic.org/news/clink-is-a-new-member-of-cepic

Best
Janos

https://twitter.com/TeamCLink/status/1420799465166938116

Vector of Trust

Janos Farkas — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:08:05 +0000

I am enthusiastic to share a cover of the technical webinar we did with Adobe and The New York Times last week. There are some nice words within about our work.

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.