With MyCopyright, you can document your drafts and your works with evidential value. Further functions will be added.
In copyright law, there is no register, unlike patent law for inventions. Digital content can, however, be copied, modified, and passed on 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 an infrastructure for digital assets and accompanies creative work. Our concept follows three stages: Evidence, Asset, and Market (licensing).
MyCopyright does not create copyrights. Copyright protection arises automatically, provided that the statutory requirements are met: a human creation with elements that are sufficiently individual. However, MyCopyright enables you to demonstrate the existence of a file at a specific point in time and to provide information about it. Thanks to qualified identification by Swisscom, it is also possible to establish beyond doubt the person behind it.
Using MyCopyright currently requires a management agreement with ProLitteris (membership), in the role as author. The service will be available later for publishing houses and other people. 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 by ProLitteris together with Swiss Trust Layer and expanded step by step. A partnership with other collecting societies is in progress.
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 Swisscom blockchain. 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 option of sealing and depositing four further versions in the same way. The file can be made accessible to other people: you also have evidence of this and, thanks to qualified identification, the certainty about which natural person received the file. With this process, 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 of your device (computer, smartphone). The data is encrypted and stored independently. We use a KYC process (know your customer) from our partner Swisscom Trust Services AG, a subsidiary of Swisscom. Connected to this is particularly secure, sovereign storage of the file in Switzerland. You can prevent the file from lying 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 themselves 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 insurance for important documents and files.
ProLitteris is extending the labels that were published in summer 2026 by the European Commission – as possible but non-binding markers. First, MyCopyright adds self-declaration on AI use to the digital fingerprint of the file, which is stored in the Swisscom Trust Services blockchain. Second, ProLitteris extends the labels AI GENERATED and AI MODIFIED with the additional labels AI FREE and AI ASSISTED. Further labels are added for 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 impact on a determining element. Examples include a text with machine spell-checking, a photo with simple light correction, a music or voice recording with noise suppression, or an unchanged mobile phone video.
Human-directed content with an AI contribution. The content was predominantly generated by humans, but at least one determining element was generated or modified with AI. Humans create the content, but AI contributes at least one determining 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 determining element. AI modifies or supplements at least one determining element in existing content: for example, the statement 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 determining elements with AI. Based on a prompt or chat, AI generates 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 assumed by humans. The complete content has been reviewed and approved by at least one identified human. This person 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 available only to qualifiedly identified people. Identification takes place via a KYC process using a passport document. Swisscom Trust Services provides the technical solution and trust services. One of the labels AI FREE, AI ASSISTED, AI MODIFIED, or AI GENERATED applies to each piece of content. HUMAN AUTHORED can only be combined with AI FREE, HUMAN APPROVED with all labels. In the event of overlap, the following order applies: AI GENERATED, AI MODIFIED, AI ASSISTED, AI FREE. 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 determining elements can be indicated additionally.
ProLitteris is planning and building a trust infrastructure for digital content, supported by collecting societies in Switzerland and abroad. The basis remains the sealing and depositing of content and the qualified, certified, and encrypted identification of people who store a file and further information. Later, the offering is intended to become a central register of files and rights, with the option to grant or refuse licenses for artificial intelligence (opt out). This infrastructure uses ProLitteris as a competence center for copyright and for the definition and management of rights, the experience and competence 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 age is uncertain. For this reason, ProLitteris is planning that works and information on the claimed or managed rights can be found in a register that is kept by collecting societies and other rights holders.
At a later stage, a Copyright Office, together with other collecting societies, is intended to simplify the licensing of rights. The focus – depending on the legal framework – is on licensing 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. Furthermore, advice on copyrights, personality rights, and patent, trademark, and design rights is planned.
Are you an author and would you like to use MyCopyright? Log in to the ProLitteris portal and seal or deposit your files there. Access further services that we are continuously developing: markers 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 assurance that ProLitteris, as an independent body, ensures documentation that will serve as evidence for you.
