Your work travels faster than you
A text, a photo or a design can be on another site minutes after you publish it.
Pre-launch · Early access open
Your work's history, certified from the first draft.
rightsguardian automatically certifies every version of what you create, right from Word, Google Docs, WordPress or our desktop app, which works with any program. Your work never leaves your device, and its certified history stays with you. Anyone can verify it, even without us.
No commitment. We'll let you know as soon as your integration is ready.
Authorship history
Novel · "The Best Is Yet to Be Written"
- Certified
First draft
- Certified
Chapter 3 rewritten
- Certified
Version for the publisher
- Certified
Published on Amazon KDP
4 certificates · verifiable by anyone, without depending on us
Protecting the work of more than 1,800 authors and publishers since 2011.
The problem
Someone copies you. Now how do you show you got there first?
Loose screenshots, emails to yourself, files with dates anyone can change. When you really need them, none of them hold up.
Your files can't prove their own history
A file can be copied, renamed or re-dated in seconds. It proves nothing.
Nobody certifies while creating
Doing it by hand for every version is so tedious that nobody does it. Until it's too late.
How it works
Three steps. Then it runs on its own.
- 1
Connect your tools
Install rightsguardian in WordPress, Word, Excel or PowerPoint. No change to the way you work.
- 2
Create as usual
rightsguardian computes each version's fingerprint on your device and certifies it under your rules.
- 3
Keep your history at hand
Every certificate is saved on your device, organized by work, ready to export and verify.
Use cases
The day someone claims it's theirs, you'll have the history.
What any creator goes through, and what changes with rightsguardian.
Scheduled certification
You decide when. rightsguardian never forgets.
Schedule the certification of your creative process with simple rules, per work or per folder. Once they're on, they run by themselves.
On save
Every time you save, a certified version.
On a schedule
Every 15 minutes, every hour or every day while you work.
At every milestone
When you finish a chapter, deliver a draft or send it to a client.
On publish
At the exact moment your work goes out into the world.
Integrations
Where you already create.
We're building the integrations now. Early-access members try them first.
Word
In developmentManuscripts, articles and scripts, version by version.
Excel
In developmentModels, data and analysis with their full history of changes.
PowerPoint
In developmentProposals, pitches and courses, from the very first slide.
WordPress
In developmentEvery post and every update, certified on publish.
Google Docs
In developmentYour writing in the cloud, with a certified copy of every version.
Google Sheets
In developmentYour spreadsheets, certified when they change.
Google Slides
In developmentYour presentations in the cloud, certified before you show them.
Browser
In developmentCertify a page exactly as it looks: yours, or the one copying you.
Desktop app
In developmentCertifies what you save from any program: from Scrivener and InDesign to Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Logic or Blender.
API
In developmentAutomate certification in your own workflow.
Private by design
Only a fingerprint leaves your device.
rightsguardian only receives each version's digital fingerprint: a unique code that identifies your content without revealing it. Your work can't be rebuilt from the fingerprint, but it can show that it's exactly that work. The certificate comes back to you and is saved on your device.
- We never see your work
- We keep neither your content nor your history
- Your certificates stay on your device, wherever you choose
On your device
Your work
It stays with you. Always.
The only thing sent
Its fingerprint
A code that doesn't reveal the content.
Back on your device
The certificate
Verifiable by anyone, without depending on us.
Verifiable without us
If we disappeared tomorrow, your certificates would still be verifiable.
Every rightsguardian certificate is issued under the CERTCRYPT domain, and anyone can verify it with CERTCRYPT's public tools: its verifier or its open toolkit. No permission needed. Without going through our servers.
Issued by rightsguardian. Verifiable by anyone.
How verification works →Compared with a registry, a notary or a timestamp
Neither a registry, nor a notary, nor a timestamp gives you this.
An entry in an official copyright registry, a notarial deed or a trusted timestamp is worth something because you trust whoever issued it. A rightsguardian certificate is worth something because anyone can check it against public rules, in any country and without depending on whoever issued it: not even us.
| Official Copyright Registry | Notary | Trusted Timestamp |  | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To verify it, do you have to trust whoever issued it? | Yes, the public registry | Yes, the notary's authority | Yes, the provider's accreditation | No: it's verified against public rules |
| If whoever issued it disappears | Depends on the registry | Depends on their records being kept | Depends on their chain of trust | It stays verifiable |
| Does it certify your creative process automatically? | No: you apply when you decide to | No: you go when you decide to | Only if you integrate and schedule it yourself | Yes: version by version, under your rules |
| Does your work leave your device? | Yes: you deposit it | Yes: you deposit it | No: only its fingerprint | No: only its fingerprint |
| How much work does it take? | Paperwork and a fee for each application | An appointment and a fee for each deed | Integrating and managing it yourself | None: it happens on its own while you work |
| Can you submit it as evidence? | Yes, with a legal presumption in your favor | Yes, with the notary's authority | Yes, with a presumption of date in some jurisdictions | Yes, and anyone can verify it |
If your case needs registering your work, a notary's authority or a legal presumption of date, you can also use the registry, notary or qualified timestamp your jurisdiction recognizes. rightsguardian complements them: it gives you the full history they never see.
If you're copied
Show up with the full history.
When someone uses your work without permission, you have something hard to argue with on your side: your work's full history, version by version, verifiable by anyone.
Authorship dossier
Export a work's timeline with all its certificates in one click.
Certify the copy
Certify the page where your work appears, exactly as it looks right then.
For your lawyer
Hand over your work's full history, organized and ready to use.
Public verification
Whoever receives your history checks it on their own, without a rightsguardian account.
For creators
Built for people who live from what they create.
- Self-published authors on Amazon KDP
- Writers
- Journalists
- Screenwriters
- Designers
- Illustrators
- Photographers
- Video creators
- Musicians and lyricists
- Teachers
- Researchers
- Consultants
- Architects and 3D designers
FAQ
What people ask before signing up.
Does rightsguardian store my work?
No. Neither your work nor your history. We only receive each version's digital fingerprint, which can't be used to rebuild it, to issue the certificate. The certificate comes back to your device and you keep it.
Does it work as evidence?
Yes. It's technical evidence anyone can verify, and it documents your work's full history, version by version. How it's weighed depends on each case; if you also need public faith or a registration, you can combine it with a notary or a registry.
What if rightsguardian disappears?
Your certificates stay verifiable against public rules with an open verifier, without depending on us. And your history is already on your device: there's nothing to recover from anywhere.
What if I lose my computer?
Your history is a regular folder: keep it wherever you already back things up, such as your cloud drive. Each certificate stands on its own and verifies by itself.
When can I start?
We're in pre-launch. Join early access and we'll let you know as soon as your integration is ready, so you can try it before anyone else.
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