{
  "regulation": "Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EU AI Act), Article 50",
  "obligation": "Transparency: machine-readable marking and detection of AI-generated or manipulated content (audio, image, video, text).",
  "inForce": "2026-08-02",
  "markingGrandfatheringDeadline": "2026-12-02",
  "primaryMechanism": "C2PA Content Credentials",
  "penalties": "up to EUR 15,000,000 or 3% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher",
  "engine": "c2pa-rs 0.80.0 (c2patool 0.26.50)",
  "engineLicense": "MIT / Apache-2.0",
  "specVersion": "C2PA 2.x (royalty-free)",
  "trustListVersion": "2026-08-01",
  "trustLists": [
    {
      "name": "C2PA Trust List",
      "role": "known conforming certificate issuers"
    },
    {
      "name": "C2PA TSA Trust List",
      "role": "trusted time-stamping authorities"
    },
    {
      "name": "Interim Trust List (ITL)",
      "role": "legacy known-certificate anchors, frozen 2026-01-01"
    }
  ],
  "datasetVersion": "1.0.0",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-13",
  "sources": [
    {
      "dataset": "regulation",
      "url": "http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"
    },
    {
      "dataset": "article50-guidelines",
      "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/guidelines-ai-transparency-obligations"
    },
    {
      "dataset": "transparency-code-of-practice",
      "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-ai-generated-content"
    },
    {
      "dataset": "c2pa-specification",
      "url": "https://c2pa.org/specifications/"
    },
    {
      "dataset": "c2pa-rs-engine",
      "url": "https://github.com/contentauth/c2pa-rs"
    },
    {
      "dataset": "c2pa-trust-lists",
      "url": "https://opensource.contentauthenticity.org/docs/conformance/trust-lists"
    },
    {
      "dataset": "soft-binding-resolution-api",
      "url": "https://developer.adobe.com/cai-soft-binding-api/"
    }
  ],
  "disclaimer": "Technical provenance verification and evidence tooling only. Not legal advice. Not an official EU or C2PA service. A passing verdict is not a guarantee of legal compliance. Absence of a credential is not proof content is not AI-generated. Verify against the EU Official Journal and the current C2PA specifications and trust lists."
}