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

Source identity and K03 revalidation
PublisherCoalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity
Claim statusCURRENT TECHNICAL STANDARD
Version or editionC2PA Technical Specification 2.4
Publication statusPublished technical specification
Publication date2026-04
Official locationhttps://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/index.html
K03 revalidated2026-08-14T22:04:09Z
Currentness assessmentC2PA 2.4, dated April 2026, is the current published specification located at K03 revalidation.
Superseded byNo successor is assigned in the current source catalog.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.

Exact sections and supported propositions
SectionProposition supported in this corpusOfficial location
Version history — 2.4C2PA 2.4 was published in April 2026 and added new asset formats, assertions, and a JSON-based serialization.Official section
Core provenance principleContent 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.

Qualification: Official publication and exact-section support do not transfer authority beyond the source's scope or prove every external fact.

Support relationship

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.

Qualification: Official publication and exact-section support do not transfer authority beyond the source's scope or prove every external fact.

Support relationship