Revalidated public source record
C2PA Technical Specification v2.4
Source scope
Current content-provenance specification at the 2026-08-14 research cutoff; provenance assertions remain distinct from factual truth.
Publisher, edition, and currentness
| Publisher | Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity |
|---|---|
| Claim status | CURRENT TECHNICAL STANDARD |
| Version or edition | C2PA Technical Specification 2.4 |
| Publication status | Published technical specification |
| Publication date | 2026-04 |
| Official location | https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/index.html |
| K03 revalidated | 2026-08-14T22:04:09Z |
| Currentness assessment | C2PA 2.4, dated April 2026, is the current published specification located at K03 revalidation. |
| Superseded by | No successor is assigned in the current source catalog. |
Claim-level support
Each row records the precise proposition this corpus draws from an official section. The citation does not authorize broader conclusions than the stated proposition.
| Section | Proposition supported in this corpus | Official location |
|---|---|---|
| Version history — 2.4 | C2PA 2.4 was published in April 2026 and added new asset formats, assertions, and a JSON-based serialization. | Official section |
| Core provenance principle | Content Credentials establish provenance information without making a value judgment about whether the provenance data is good or bad. | Official section |
How this source may be used
- Confirm that the official edition, jurisdiction, and status remain current before high-stakes reliance.
- Cite the exact section supporting the proposition rather than the publication title alone.
- Keep technical conformance separate from factual truth, legal authority, moral status, and institutional operation.
- Record retrieval, correction, supersession, and purpose qualification.
Limitations
An official source can still be irrelevant, incomplete, stale, disputed, or unsuitable for a named decision. A standard can define an interchange or security mechanism without resolving personhood, citizenship, sovereignty, consciousness, consent, legal competence, or factual truth. A statute can regulate systems without recognizing Machine Intelligence as a legal person.
C2PA 2.4, dated April 2026, is the current published specification located at K03 revalidation.
Corrections, contradictions, and supersession
- No source-specific correction, contradiction, or supersession record is active.
Where this source is used
Authority boundary
Publication by Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity establishes source provenance and official status within the publisher’s scope. It does not transfer governance, registry, assurance, or legal authority to ᚲ.com. The source remains external; this page is a knowledge record and revalidation log.
Exact source-section claims
Each proposition has a stable ID, status, scope, owning route, evidence relationship, currentness qualification, correction state, and synchronized JSON record. Record completeness does not make the proposition true.
C2PA Technical Specification v2.4 — Version history — 2.4
C2PA 2.4 was published in April 2026 and added new asset formats, assertions, and a JSON-based serialization.
Support relationship
SRC-C2PA· Version history — 2.4 · DIRECT SOURCE-SECTION SUPPORT
C2PA Technical Specification v2.4 — Core provenance principle
Content Credentials establish provenance information without making a value judgment about whether the provenance data is good or bad.
Support relationship
SRC-C2PA· Core provenance principle · DIRECT SOURCE-SECTION SUPPORT