Register your work for an IPFN.
Mint a permanent, content-addressed fingerprint of your work — a public, time-stamped, verifiable record that proves what it is and when it existed. The whole thing takes a few minutes.
Why register at all?
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.
What an IPFN is
The InterPlanetary File Number (IPFN) is the core content-addressing protocol 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.
What gets registered
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.