Forensic IP attribution

Evidence for creative work in the age of AI.

IPLYR determines whether protected works were used to build AI models and documents each finding to the standard expected by courts, insurers, and licensing counterparties.

$1.5B
Largest copyright settlement in US history (Bartz v. Anthropic, about 482,000 works)
As of September 2025
~$3,000
Estimated gross per work in the Bartz settlement (initial payout $2,203.56)
As of September 2025
114
Active US copyright lawsuits against AI companies (130 worldwide)
As of June 2026
Aug 2026
Since 2 August 2026 the European Commission can enforce Article 53 obligations on general-purpose AI model providers
As of October 2026

Sources: Authors Guild and Susman Godfrey on the Anthropic settlement; ChatGPT Is Eating the World AI Copyright Case Tracker; European Commission, AI Act Article 53. IPLYR is not counsel of record in these matters.

The Litmus Test

Was this work used to train that model?

IPLYR issues a written forensic opinion on whether a specific work is present in a specific model. Each engagement returns a binary finding, EXTRACTION CONFIRMED or NO EXTRACTION DETECTED, delivered as a signed, hash-anchored evidence bundle prepared for use before the court.

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Reviewed with IP counsel Validated against a 111-opinion fair-use corpus Referenced against 1,349 CourtListener precedents

Methodology draws on peer-reviewed extraction and membership-inference research. Prepared under the Daubert / FRE 702 framework. Admissibility in any particular proceeding remains the court's determination. Full technical brief available to counsel and opposing experts under MNDA.

Litmus Test · verdict
matter mat_01J9X8K2QV
Extraction confirmedstrict reporting threshold
Recall index
0.873
0.000reporting threshold1.000
Matched blocks
14
Longest block
214 w
Robustness
A
Chain-of-custody anchors
evidence:9c3a…f201 ledger:b2f0…d41a timestamp:2026-06-21T14:08Z seal:iplyr-fr-23
Prepared under Daubert / FRE 702signer trust: L2 verified

Illustrative bundle. The finding reflects the test's output at the reporting threshold set for the engagement. Legal conclusions remain with counsel.

Who we serve

IPLYR is the evidence-and-attribution layer for the AI-content economy.

Choose the path that fits your work. The forensic record underneath is the same; the deliverable changes.

For litigators & litigation finance

Per-work forensic evidence reports

Run the Litmus Test on a specific work and a specific model. Receive a binary verdict, an evidence bundle documented to the Daubert factors, hash-anchored and signed, sized for motion practice and case-portfolio underwriting.

  • Binary verdict + signed evidence bundle
  • Damages anchor aligned to Bartz settlement floor
  • Case-portfolio underwriting briefs for funders
For AI labs & publishers

Training-data audits & licensing intelligence

Audit a training corpus for copyrighted exposure before regulators or plaintiffs do. Quote a deal against 270+ tracked comparators. The same forensic engine, applied upstream.

  • EU AI Act Article 53 audit & summary draft
  • Training Data Price Index + BATNA brief
  • Continuous monitoring across catalog scale
How the evidence holds

Tamper-evident. Independently timestamped. Signed.

Each engagement produces a written forensic opinion accompanied by a cryptographic evidence bundle prepared to withstand a motion to exclude and a hostile cross-examination.

01

Tamper-evident

Every artifact in the report is committed to a cryptographic ledger. Later alteration of any prompt, response, or file is detectable on inspection.

Cryptographic ledger
02

Independently timestamped

The record is anchored to an external, third-party timestamp. The date the evidence existed does not depend on IPLYR's servers or clock.

Independent timestamp
03

Signed and attributable

Each bundle carries a signed provenance seal that discloses the signer, the signer's trust level, and the methodology version applied.

Signed provenance seal

A signed seal is a verifiable record of provenance. It is not a substitute for the chain-of-custody discipline maintained by counsel. Specific cryptographic primitives and version numbers are disclosed to counsel and opposing experts under MNDA.

Current case law

The engine knows what the courts just ruled.

IPLYR's fair-use scoring and jurisdiction model update as rulings land.

Precedent
N.D. Cal., 2025

Bartz v. Anthropic

Training on purchased books was fair use; a library of pirated copies was not. Settled in 2025 for $1.5B, about $3,000 per work across about 482,000 works.

Precedent
N.D. Cal., 2025

Kadrey v. Meta

Fair use on summary judgment where plaintiffs failed to develop a market-harm record.

Precedent
LG München, 2025

GEMA v. OpenAI

Memorization is permanent infringement under EU law, not transient copying.

View the case-law database
Case-law database

Holdings are summarized. Consult the full opinions. Nothing on this site is legal advice.

Bring us a work and a model. We will tell you what the evidence shows.

GDPR · EU AI Act Annex III workflows

IPLYR is a forensic evidence platform. We do not provide legal advice or represent parties in litigation.