EU AI Act Article 50
Requires machine-readable metadata marking AI-generated content. Penalties up to 3% of global annual turnover.
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Meet EU AI Act Article 50 and California SB 942 requirements while protecting your proprietary workflows. Numonic automatically embeds compliance metadata—so you can disclose AI origins without revealing trade secrets.
New Regulations Are Coming—Is Your Content Ready?
Global regulators are mandating transparency for AI-generated content. Non-compliance risks fines up to 3% of global revenue, reputational damage, and market access restrictions. But traditional approaches force you to choose between compliance and protecting your creative IP.
Requires machine-readable metadata marking AI-generated content. Penalties up to 3% of global annual turnover.
Mandates disclosure and labeling requirements for synthetic media. Effective January 2026.
Full transparency could reveal proprietary prompts, workflows, and model configurations to competitors.
Manually tracking and labeling AI content across thousands of assets is error-prone and unsustainable.
Compliance by Design. Privacy by Default.
Numonic is the first digital asset management platform built for AI transparency regulations. We automatically handle compliance metadata while giving you granular control over what gets disclosed.
Automatically detect and display C2PA signatures on imported assets. Know instantly if content has verified AI provenance from Adobe, Microsoft, or other Content Authenticity Initiative members.
Inject the latest IPTC standard AI disclosure fields on export. Indicate AI involvement at the right level of detail—without exposing your actual prompts or model configs.
Choose from pre-configured export profiles that balance transparency with IP protection. Strip sensitive workflow data while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Maintain complete provenance tracking from creation through every modification. Demonstrate chain of custody for audits and legal proceedings.
Key compliance deadlines for AI-generated content disclosure
The EU Commission released the first draft Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, providing detailed guidance for providers and deployers on meeting Article 50 requirements.
Disclosure and labeling requirements for synthetic media become mandatory for businesses operating in California or serving California residents.
Machine-readable metadata and detection mechanisms required for AI-generated content. Non-compliance penalties up to 3% of global annual turnover.
We implement specifications trusted by Adobe, Microsoft, BBC, and 100+ organizations in the Content Authenticity Initiative.
Cryptographic signatures for tamper-evident content authenticity across platforms and applications.
Learn moreIndustry standard AI disclosure fields for images, supported by news agencies and publishers worldwide.
Learn moreAdobe's metadata framework for cross-application interoperability and provenance tracking.
Learn moreIf you create, publish, or distribute AI-generated content, these regulations apply to you.
News organizations, magazines, and digital publishers using AI for images, illustrations, or enhanced photography.
Compliance required: EU AI Act, California SB 942
Marketing agencies and studios creating AI-assisted campaigns for clients with global audiences.
Compliance required: EU AI Act, SB 942, client contracts
In-house teams at brands using AI to scale content production across markets.
Compliance required: EU AI Act, SB 942, brand guidelines
Companies building AI generation tools that need to help their customers meet disclosure requirements.
Compliance required: EU AI Act (provider obligations)
Everything you need to know about AI transparency compliance
EU AI Act Article 50 requires providers of AI systems generating synthetic content to ensure outputs are marked in machine-readable format and detectable as AI-generated. It also requires deployers of deepfake AI systems to disclose that content has been artificially generated or manipulated. The transparency provisions take effect in August 2026, with penalties up to 3% of global annual turnover for non-compliance.
California SB 942, the AI Transparency Act, requires disclosure of AI-generated content in specific contexts and mandates labeling requirements for synthetic media. It takes effect in January 2026 and applies to businesses operating in California that create, publish, or distribute AI-generated content.
IPTC 2025.1 is the latest Photo Metadata Standard that introduces AI-specific disclosure fields including AISystemUsed (name of AI engine/model), AISystemVersionUsed (version string), AIPromptInformation (generic prompt indicator without exposing actual prompts), AIPromptWriterName (creator attribution), and DigitalSourceType (content origin classification such as trainedAlgorithmicMedia or compositeSynthetic).
C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) is an open standard providing cryptographic signatures for content authenticity and tamper-evident provenance chains. Numonic automatically detects C2PA signatures on imported assets from providers like Adobe, Microsoft, and BBC, displaying verification badges in the asset library. Full cryptographic validation and re-signing capabilities are planned for Q3 2026.
Numonic uses a privacy-aware export pipeline with three metadata categories: Category A (strippable) removes sensitive data like prompts, seeds, and GPS on export; Category B (preserved) keeps technical metadata like dimensions and color profiles; Category C (compliance) injects regulatory metadata like IPTC 2025.1 AI fields. This allows you to disclose AI origins at the appropriate level without revealing trade secrets.
Numonic supports AI transparency features for images (PNG, JPEG with full IPTC/XMP support) and video formats (MP4, MOV with XMP UUID injection, and WebM, MKV with native Matroska tag injection). C2PA detection is currently available for PNG and JPEG, with video C2PA detection planned for Q2 2026.
Non-compliance with EU AI Act transparency requirements (Article 50) can result in penalties up to 3% of global annual turnover. Beyond financial penalties, non-compliance risks reputational damage and restrictions on market access within the European Union.
AI transparency regulations apply to: (1) Media and publishing organizations using AI for images or enhanced photography, (2) Creative agencies creating AI-assisted campaigns for global audiences, (3) Enterprise creative teams using AI to scale content production, and (4) AI tool providers who need to help customers meet disclosure requirements. If you create, publish, or distribute AI-generated content, these regulations likely apply to you.
Don't wait until regulators come knocking. Start building your AI transparency infrastructure today.
IPTC 2025.1 AI disclosure fields on every export.
Identify existing content provenance automatically.
Protect prompts and workflows while staying compliant.
Full compliance for MP4, MOV, WebM, and MKV formats.
Our team will analyze your current workflow and provide a roadmap to full EU AI Act and California SB 942 compliance.