With MyCopyright, you can document your drafts and your works as evidence. Additional functions will be added.
In copyright law, there is no register, unlike patent law for inventions. However, digital content can be copied, modified, and shared particularly easily. With artificial intelligence (AI), such uses have become even more widespread. How can you later prove that you are the author of an idea, a draft, or a work?
MyCopyright creates infrastructure for digital assets and accompanies creative activity. Our concept follows three stages: Evidence, Asset, and Market (licensing).
MyCopyright does not establish any copyrights. Copyright protection arises automatically if the statutory requirements are fulfilled: a human creation with elements that are sufficiently individual. However, MyCopyright enables you to prove the existence of a file at a specific point in time and related information. Thanks to qualified identification by Swisscom, the person behind it can also be determined without any doubt.
The use of MyCopyright currently requires a management agreement with ProLitteris (membership), in the role as author. The service will be made available later for publishing houses and other persons. The infrastructure is being continuously expanded and is also suitable for other forms of intellectual property as well as for concepts or trade secrets.
MyCopyright is being developed jointly by ProLitteris and Swiss Trust Layer and expanded step by step. A partnership with other collecting societies is in preparation.
We provide your documents and files with a digital fingerprint and a timestamp. Your certificate proves at any time that a specific file existed at a specific point in time. This information is stored immutably in a blockchain operated by Swisscom. For the file itself, you choose a simple storage location or a higher security level in Switzerland. For CHF 5 per year, MyCopyright provides you with a folder for numerous files with the possibility of sealing and depositing four additional versions in the same way. The file can be made accessible to others: You have evidence for this as well and, thanks to qualified identification, also certainty as to which natural person has received the file. With this procedure, you prevent AI models and other services on the Internet from accessing your data.
MyCopyright offers qualified identification of the person who submits a file. To do this, you use your passport and the camera on your device (computer, smartphone). The data is encrypted and stored independently. We use a know-your-customer (KYC) process from our partner Swisscom Trust Services AG, a subsidiary of Swisscom. Connected with this is particularly secure, sovereign storage of the file in Switzerland. You can prevent the file from being stored in a cloud on the Internet that could enable other actors to access data. The identified person can obtain the file again from ProLitteris at any time by identifying themself in the same way as during the first identification. This process (recovery) is possible online or physically at ProLitteris — later also at other collecting societies that use our system. Our escrow is a particularly reliable safeguard for important documents and files.
ProLitteris expands the labels that were published by the EU Commission in summer 2026 as possible but non-mandatory identifiers. First, MyCopyright adds the self-declaration regarding AI use to the digital fingerprint of the file, which is stored in the blockchain of Swisscom Trust Services. And second, ProLitteris expands the labels AI GENERATED and AI MODIFIED with the additional labels AI FREE and AI ASSISTED. Additional labels serve the reverse perspective: HUMAN AUTHORED and HUMAN APPROVED – both labels require qualified identification of at least one natural person.
Human content without any AI contribution. The definitions of AI FREE and HUMAN AUTHORED correspond, but the conditions for their use differ. The content was generated entirely by humans. Not taken into account is a minimal technical, preparatory, or checking use of AI without any influence on a defining element. Examples include a text with machine spell-checking, a photo with simple light correction, a music or voice recording with noise reduction, or an unchanged mobile phone video.
Human-determined content with AI contribution. The content was predominantly generated by humans, but at least one defining element was generated or modified with AI. Humans create the content, but AI contributes at least one defining element: for example, the headline of an article, the background of an image, an additional voice in a recording, or a generated video sequence.
Existing content with AI modification. The content is based on existing content and has been modified with AI in at least one defining element. AI modifies or adds at least one defining element in existing content: for example, the message of a text, a person in a photo, the spoken words in an audio recording, or the depicted sequence of events in a video.
AI-determined content. The content was generated entirely, predominantly, or in its defining elements with AI. AI generates, based on a prompt or chat, a complete article, an illustration, a music or voice recording, or a video clip. Content that is predominantly AI-generated with individual human corrections also falls under this category.
Content reviewed and approved by humans. The complete content has been reviewed and released by at least one identified human. This human and/or a designated organization assumes responsibility for it. An identified person reviews and finalizes complete content before publication: for example, a manuscript, a customer letter, a media release, a social media post, an advertising graphic, or an informational video.
The labels HUMAN AUTHORED and HUMAN APPROVED are only available to persons with qualified identification. Identification takes place via a KYC process with a passport document. Swisscom Trust Services provides the technical solution and the trust services. For each content, one of the labels AI FREE, AI ASSISTED, AI MODIFIED, or AI GENERATED applies. HUMAN AUTHORED can only be combined with AI FREE, HUMAN APPROVED with all labels. In the case of overlaps, the order AI GENERATED, AI MODIFIED, AI ASSISTED, AI FREE applies. The label applies to a specific version. Changes can lead to a new label. For composite content, the label applies to the entire content; differing defining components can additionally be specified.
ProLitteris is planning and building trust infrastructure for digital content, supported by collecting societies in Switzerland and abroad. The basis will continue to be the sealing and depositing of content and the qualified, certified, and encrypted identification of humans who store a file and related information. Later, the offering is to become a central register of files and rights, with the possibility of granting or refusing licenses for artificial intelligence (opt out). This infrastructure uses ProLitteris as a competence center in copyright law and in the definition and management of rights, the experience and expertise of the IT company Swiss Trust Layer in the development and operation of security services, and the partner Swisscom Trust Services as a leading company for digital signatures and long-term secure encryption.
The development of copyright law in the AI era is uncertain. For this reason, ProLitteris is planning for works and information on the rights claimed or managed to be findable in a register operated by collecting societies and other rights holders.
At a later stage, a Copyright Office is to simplify the licensing of rights together with other collecting societies. The main focus – depending on the legal framework – is the licensing of certain uses by artificial intelligence.
MyCopyright is preparing functions to better assess the rights in content. On request, ProLitteris can determine the probable share of artificial intelligence or the probability that content will be recognized as a work protected by copyright. In addition, advice on copyright, personality rights, and patent, trademark, and design rights is planned.
Are you an author and would like to use MyCopyright? Log in to the ProLitteris portal and seal or deposit your files there. Access additional services that we are continuously developing: identifiers for your content (AI FREE, HUMAN AUTHORED, AI GENERATED, etc.), release of documents to a specifically named natural person, connection to international digital fingerprints and watermarks — always with the certainty that ProLitteris as an independent body ensures documentation that will serve as evidence for you.
