Your Photo Was Used
To Train an AI Model.
AI companies scrape billions of images to train generative models. Your photographs — shot, edited, and licensed by you — become training data without consent or compensation. FORTRESS embeds invisible provenance markers that persist through AI training pipelines, proving ownership and enabling retroactive licensing.
The Market Opportunity
Image licensing is a $4.8B market under existential threat from AI. Photographers who can prove provenance unlock a new enforcement revenue stream.
$4.8B Licensing Market
Stock photography and image licensing market is eroding as AI-generated alternatives flood the market. Provenance-verified images command 40% premium.
Getty v. Stability AI
Landmark copyright cases are establishing precedent for AI training on copyrighted images. Provenance evidence is the critical differentiator in litigation.
AI Training Opt-Out
robots.txt and meta tags are trivially bypassed. Only watermark-level provenance survives web scraping, CDN caching, and dataset aggregation pipelines.
Three Layers of Visual Protection
From shutter click to web publication, every pixel carries your identity.
Invisible Image Watermark
DWT frequency-domain watermark embedded at export. Survives JPEG compression (down to Q10), social media re-encoding, cropping, color grading, and even AI style transfer.
AI Training Detection
Proprietary fingerprinting detects when your watermarked images appear in the output of generative AI models. Traces the training data provenance chain to prove unauthorized usage.
Licensing Enforcement SDK
API-first SDK for stock platforms and agencies. Automated detection of unlicensed usage across the web with one-click retroactive licensing demand generation.
How It Works
Watermark
Export your photos through the FORTRESS Lightroom/Capture One plugin or API. Each image receives a unique invisible watermark linked to your creator identity.
Monitor
Swarm crawlers scan Google Images, social platforms, stock sites, and AI model outputs 24/7. Every match is logged with screenshot evidence and timestamp.
License
Unlicensed usage triggers an automated retroactive licensing demand. POAW evidence packet supports litigation if the infringer refuses to pay.
ROI: Turn Infringement Into Income
Photographer Impact Model
Your stolen images start paying you back.
Protect Your Portfolio. Enforce Your Rights.
Upload a sample image. We'll watermark it and run a live infringement scan.
Schedule Demo →DWT Image Watermarking: Beyond EXIF
EXIF metadata is stripped by every social platform. FORTRESS embeds provenance data in the wavelet coefficient space of the image itself. The watermark persists through JPEG re-compression (Q10+), PNG conversion, WebP encoding, and even AI-powered upscaling (Real-ESRGAN, Topaz).
AI Training Detection: The Fingerprint Survives
When a watermarked image is used as training data for a generative AI model (Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, DALL-E), statistical fingerprint residuals propagate into the model's output distribution. FORTRESS can detect these residuals in generated images, proving that your copyrighted work was used in training — even without access to the model weights.
PQC-Signed Provenance
Every watermark payload is signed with ML-DSA (FIPS 204). This ensures that extracted evidence cannot be forged by adversaries — including those with access to future quantum computers. Critical for multi-year litigation timelines.
Relevant Patent Claims
Parent Filing #63/994,444: Frequency-domain image watermarking with AI-training survivability (Claims 111-118), generative model fingerprint detection (Claims 171-178), and retroactive licensing automation (Claims 219-225).