Open registry of certified works
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A few minutes. A permanent, content-addressed fingerprint of your work — public, time-stamped, verifiable proof of what you made and when it existed.
Start registrationyou keep the rights · 213 works in the open registry
You already own the copyright. Proving it is the hard part.
Under the Berne Convention — the international treaty most of the world signed — copyright vests in you the moment a work is fixed in tangible form. No paperwork required. The right is automatic.
What Berne does not give you is a public, dated, verifiable record of the work itself. There is no built-in registry. National copyright offices exist, but they are jurisdiction-specific, paper-bound, slow, and often expensive. So when a dispute lands, the question stops being “do you have copyright?” and becomes “can you prove what you made and when you made it?” — and most people can't.
That gap — between holding the right and being able to prove it — is what an IPFN closes.
The International Pinned File Number (IPFN) is the core content-addressing standard we use. Instead of pointing to a location, it points to content. Your work is identified by what it is, not where it's stored — which is what makes it permanent and portable.
In practice: the moment you register, your work is hashed and pinned to a public, decentralized network. The hash is the receipt. Anyone can verify, at any time, that the work matches the hash and that the hash existed on the date of registration. That's the public dated record Berne assumes you'll get from somewhere else.
The wizard captures three things: the work itself (image, document, or other file), the metadata that describes it (title, description, tags, your authorship claim), and a cryptographic link back to your ARTSSN identity. The result is a single immutable record on the network.
The work
A file you upload — image, document, or other artifact.
The metadata
Title, description, tags, and your authorship claim.
The identity link
A cryptographic tie back to your ARTSSN studio.
