C2PA was a new acronym on the radars of many attendees of this year’s NAB Show, Faultline included. The initiative – which is not a Star Wars character, but stands for the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity – isn’t really that new at all, having been founded by an alliance of big cheeses in February 2021. Backed by Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, Arm, the BBC, and Truepic, the C2PA was founded with the goal of developing technical standards for certifying sources of media content. Truepic, a secure camera technology developer, is the outlier here, but its software is essential to the C2PA security specification. More than two years later, even people working directly in the fields of content protection and…