Content provenance
Disclosure, by whoever created or edited an asset, of how it was made and what was changed — carried with the asset rather than asserted beside it.
Official source: Content Credentials — C2PA Technical Specification (2.4) →
Each modification preserves the existing history and appends to it, so the record accumulates instead of being overwritten. The specification binds this to the file through a cryptographically signed manifest, which is what makes tampering evident rather than merely discouraged.
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