Take a selfie
A selfie is a photograph you made, so you’re its author. That’s the kind of human work copyright protects.
This preview is only on your phone. Nothing was uploaded.
This is your photo’s fingerprint
These 64 letters and numbers were made from every bit of your photo, right here on your phone. Any other file gets a different one.
Fingerprint after changing one byte
Say who made it
Copyright protects what a human made. If AI changed part of your photo, you say so and claim only your part. That’s a human authorship statement.
Your human authorship statement
Stamp it into Bitcoin
CopyRise writes your photo’s fingerprint into Bitcoin, a public record copied on thousands of computers. After that, no one can change or backdate it, and anyone can check it for free. Your first work is free.
This is the photo you’re stamping. Change photo
Recorded with your stamp
We’ll email you a link to confirm your address, then send your proof. Your photo is never sent, only its fingerprint, the details you typed, and your email. Privacy policy
No signal right now, and that’s OK. Your fingerprint is saved on this phone, and it will be stamped by itself as soon as you’re back online. You can close this page; it sends the next time you open copyrise.ai/live.
- Sent to the Bitcoin timestamp servers
- Waiting for a Bitcoin blockUsually a few hours. Then the date is locked in for good.
- Check your email
Make it count in court
Your Bitcoin stamp proves when your photo existed. In the U.S., you can’t sue over a U.S. work until it’s registered with the Copyright Office, and registering early is what makes statutory damages and attorney’s fees possible.
If AI touched your work, the application has to name the AI parts and leave them out of your claim. Your authorship statement from step 3 is the start of that.
General information, not legal advice. For your own situation, talk to an attorney.