The TAKE IT DOWN Act requires no provenance mark

The ledger searched and found no instrument. The record says where it looked and when.

Where the ledger looked: Searched on 2026-09-15: the enacted text of Public Law 119-12 was fetched from govinfo.gov and scanned in full for provenance, watermark, metadata and C2PA. Zero occurrences of any of them. The Act's operative provisions are a criminal prohibition and a notice and removal duty, so no provenance marking obligation exists in it.

Record ID

CPS-2026-0023

Kind

Binding law

Jurisdiction

United States

Last verified

15 September 2026

Added

15 September 2026

• The Act is Public Law 119-12, enacted 19 May 2025, from S. 146, titled the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act.
• Section 2 amends section 223 of the Communications Act of 1934 to add a criminal prohibition on intentional disclosure of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions.
• A full text scan of the enacted law returns zero occurrences of provenance, watermark, metadata or C2PA.
• Its remedy is takedown after the fact, which is a different mechanism from marking at the point of creation and does not substitute for one.

Embeds a mark or manifest, Displays or verifies, What it requires. Stated means the document you can open below says it; silent means the ledger read the document and it does not.

Embeds a mark or manifestSilent

The Act requires no mark of any kind to be embedded in any file.Public Law 119-12, TAKE IT DOWN Act, enacted text, primary source, 19 May 2025.

Displays or verifiesSilent

It requires no display of provenance and no verification surface.Public Law 119-12, TAKE IT DOWN Act, enacted text, primary source, 19 May 2025.

What it requiresStated

It requires covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions on notice, which is a takedown duty, not a marking duty.Public Law 119-12, TAKE IT DOWN Act, enacted text, primary source, 19 May 2025.

Correct the citation if it appears in your policy. A compliance programme built on TAKE IT DOWN is a notice and removal programme, with the response clock that implies, and it will not satisfy any marking duty in the European Union, California or China. The two obligations need separate owners inside an organisation, because one is a content operations problem and the other is an engineering problem in the encoding pipeline.

1. Public Law 119-12, TAKE IT DOWN Act, enacted textPrimary · 19 May 2025

• VerifiedBinding lawCPS-2026-0024

  The COPIED Act, S. 1396 in the 119th Congress

  United States · verified 15 September 2026

  The bill's long title is "To require transparency with respect to content and content provenance information, to protect artistic content, and for other purposes".

• VerifiedBinding lawCPS-2026-0020

  The California AI Transparency Act, SB 942 as amended by AB 853

  United States · verified 15 September 2026

  SB 942 requires a covered provider to include a latent disclosure conveying the provider's name, the system name and version, the time and date of creation or alteration, and a unique identifier.

• AbsentPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0017

  Anthropic: no published provenance mark

  United States · verified 15 September 2026

  Anthropic's transparency page was fetched in full and contains no occurrence of C2PA, Content Credentials, provenance or watermark.

• VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0015

  Microsoft: Content Credentials on Azure OpenAI images

  United States · verified 15 September 2026

  Microsoft states that "All AI-generated images from Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models include Content Credentials, a tamper-evident way to disclose the origin and history of content".

• VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0014

  YouTube: a C2PA manifest can trigger the AI label by itself

  United States · verified 15 September 2026

  YouTube states it "may automatically apply an AI label on the video player or in the expanded description for: Content that contains C2PA metadata".

• VerifiedPlatform or model providerCPS-2026-0013

  TikTok: reading Content Credentials to label uploads

  United States · verified 15 September 2026

  TikTok states it launched "the ability to read Content Credentials, a technology from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)" to auto label content from other platforms.