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

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CPS-2026-0024

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Binding law

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United States

Last verified

15 September 2026

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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".
• It was introduced on 9 April 2025 by Senator Cantwell with Senators Blackburn and Heinrich, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
• Section 4 would have the National Institute of Standards and Technology facilitate development of standards for content provenance information, with section 5 directing research.
• Section 6 is titled Requirements for Content Provenance Information; Prohibited Acts, and includes a subsection on removal of content provenance information.
• Its duty on tool makers would begin two years after enactment, and applies to anyone who for a commercial purpose makes available a tool whose primary purpose is creating synthetic or synthetically modified content.
• That duty is framed as giving users the ability to include provenance information, taking the section 4 standards into consideration, rather than mandating a mark on every output.

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Embeds a mark or manifestStated

It would require tools to offer users the ability to attach content provenance information, not to attach it always.S. 1396, COPIED Act, introduced in Senate, 119th Congress, primary source, 9 April 2025.

Displays or verifiesStated

It carries no display duty of its own; its enforcement section sits with the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general.S. 1396, COPIED Act, introduced in Senate, 119th Congress, primary source, 9 April 2025.

What it requiresSilent

The status of the bill beyond its introduced text could not be confirmed here, because congress.gov refused every request made during this build.

Plan around state law, not this. The federal bill read here would give users an option rather than mark by default, which is weaker than what California already enacted and far weaker than Article 50. A publisher building one pipeline for several jurisdictions should build to the strictest rule it faces, which today is the combination of a machine readable mark in the European Union and a non stripping duty in California.

1. S. 1396, COPIED Act, introduced in Senate, 119th CongressPrimary · 9 April 2025

• AbsentBinding lawCPS-2026-0023

  The TAKE IT DOWN Act requires no provenance mark

  United States · verified 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.

• 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.