Content authenticity is becoming something of an obsession in the video research world – and with good reason. As AI-generated video crosses into indistinguishable realism, the content ecosystem is scrambling to watermark and fingerprint those precious pixels. At this year’s Media Web Symposium, hosted by Fraunhofer Fokus in Berlin, the institute demoed its latest work on provenance and integrity via the FAMIUM Provenance and Authenticity framework – a metadata-rich suite built on the C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) specification. C2PA is essentially an evolving specification for tracing a piece of media’s origin and edit history, down to whether it passed through Adobe tools or carries a valid digital signature. Fraunhofer is one of the first…