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Protect what you create, wherever you are, in seconds. Date your work before every share.
Protecting ideas and companies
Why we built this tool.
Asserting your rights over your work now means documenting every step, while creations spread and get copied quickly. The burden of proof stays on the person who creates. Means are unequal even though rights are equal.
Ipocamp makes this accessible: your file's fingerprint is computed at deposit, timestamped by an independent time authority and published in a registry that no one can rewrite. Your work is then transferred, encrypted, to our storage. The transfer is automatic for the free deposit, so you can retrieve the deposit if you open an account. Subscribers who want to organize their files better can request this transfer.
The resulting certificate can be verified publicly, anywhere, with standard tools. It stays verifiable over time.
Accessible
Everything happens in a browser: drag and drop your file and receive a certificate. Copyright arises when the work is created. You can date the proof of it in a few steps.
Affordable
Your first 5 deposits are free, then a subscription starts at €16 incl. VAT per month. The certificate stays verifiable for life.
Solid
A cryptographic fingerprint, a secure timestamp and an unalterable registry make up proof that is admissible in civil matters under Article 1358 of the French Civil Code.
What you can protect
Anything that fits in a file
The service timestamps the file's fingerprint and processes every format in the same way. Up to 2 GB per deposit without an account, unlimited with a subscription, and a compressed archive to timestamp a whole set at once.
Ideas & concepts
Manuscripts
Visual & plastic works
Photographs
Music & audio
Video & editing
Designs & patterns
Source code
Research papers
Lab notebooks
Business plans
Contracts & NDAs
…and everything else. Databases, blueprints, mockups, correspondence, confidential documentation: if it exists as a file, it can be timestamped.
What it changes
Four concrete differences
Beyond the certificate itself, what dating your work actually changes, day to day, and on the day things go wrong.
Defend your date
A large group or an opportunistic filer has more resources and more lawyers than you. A documented date gives you a precise foothold to defend your prior existence. The resources a third party spends do not change that date.
Peace of mind while you create
Knowing every version is dated changes how you work: you show your work earlier, you test more widely, you waste less time wondering what you can reveal and to whom.
Share on solid ground
An idea is meant to circulate, to get feedback, find collaborators, approach a publisher. Signaling that it's registered deters most bad-faith behavior before it even happens.
Support when things go wrong
Legal support quickly assesses the infringement. IP insurance can fund expert assessment, proceedings and recourse, with an account and then a subscription, under conditions.
Use cases
The most common situations
The same deposit meets different needs depending on what you protect and the risk you face. Here are three common cases for this profile. See all seven.
Date your first file today.
For an answer tailored to your case, talk to an expert: this page describes a typical situation, yours has its own specifics.
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