The marketplace that doesn't exist yet. Where the people who own the rights get the call — and the money — instead of a middleman. We don't set prices. We don't take a cut on the transaction. We just make the handshake possible.
Every day, billions of dollars worth of digital rights change hands — and the actual owners almost never see the money. Here's why.
You filmed a crash. A protest. A historic moment. A news organization wants it. They have no way to find you. So they pay an aggregator that scraped it from your social feed and kept 95% of the fee.
You took a wedding photo a venue wants for their brochure. The venue has no way to contact you. So they use a stock image instead — or worse, your photo without a license.
You designed something. A brand loves it. They reach out to an agency, an agency reaches out to a stock site, the stock site charges $5,000 — and you get $200, if anything at all.
Every StampRight stamp is a verifiable proof of ownership. The Handshake makes those stamps discoverable — so when a news org searches "crash video, NYC, May 15," your stamped video comes up, with you as the named, provable owner.
The buyer contacts you directly. You set the price, the license terms, the use scope. You sign the deal. You keep the money.
StampRight provides the discovery layer, the verified-identity layer, and the contract template. Nothing else. We're the rails, not the railroad.
The same flow you already use. Hash + identity + timestamp = a verifiable proof of ownership.
Flip a switch on any stamped asset to make it discoverable. Add keywords, location, what you're open to.
Buyers search, find your listing, send a request. No bidding, no auction, no middleman setting your price.
You set the price. You set the license terms. You sign with the buyer directly. You keep what they pay you.
A snapshot of who's listing, who's buying, and what gets transacted.
Citizen video of news events. News organizations pay for the license + on-air credit. Owner sets the rate.
Photographers list their portfolio. Brands and editorial discover, license directly. No 70% Getty cut.
Independent musicians list tracks for sync licensing. Filmmakers and creators find them, license per-use.
Sneakers, sports cards, watches, art. Provably-original owners list. Buyers contact directly, do the deal off-platform if they want.
Location scouts, film crews, photo shoots looking for unique spaces. Owners list, set rates, negotiate directly.
Logos, mockups, illustrations, fonts, code, schematics. Buyers discover by keyword + provable creation date.
No platform can guarantee a person is the legal rights-holder of what they list — that's what courts are for. What a platform can do is stack technical defenses that make fraud expensive, detectable, and reversible. This is ours.
Two people stamp the same file? The earlier stamp has provable priority — visible to every buyer who searches the catalog. If you stole my photo on May 5, my stamp from May 1 ranks above yours.
Same engine YouTube Content ID and TinEye use. We detect cropped, resized, re-compressed, watermarked, or color-shifted versions of an already-stamped asset. Identical SHA-256 isn't required — visual similarity is enough.
Before your stamp goes live, we check Google Images, TinEye, and Bing for prior appearances. If the photo you're claiming as new turns up on a 2018 Flickr account, we surface that to you and to any future buyer.
Camera make/model, GPS, capture timestamp, lens, edit history, software fingerprint. A right-clicked-save has no original EXIF; a real camera capture leaves a forensic trail. Buyers see the verdict on every listing.
Cryptographically signed provenance baked in by the camera (Sony, Nikon, Leica) or the software (Adobe, Microsoft). Strongest origin proof available. Listings with a verifiable C2PA chain get a special badge.
Every stamp is bound to a Clerk-verified email + phone. Marketplace listings can opt into KYC (passport / driver's license) for a Verified Seller badge. Buyers can filter to KYC'd sellers only.
We scan for Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and SynthID watermarks. AI-generated content carries weaker copyright status (US Copyright Office position). Listings are tagged so buyers know exactly what they're licensing.
Anyone can challenge a listing: "I'm the real rights-holder." The listing freezes, both parties submit evidence, we arbitrate or escalate. Clear copyright violations get DMCA takedown. False challengers get banned.
Bulk-stamping bots, new accounts immediately listing popular content, history of overturned counter-claims — all visible. Every listing carries the stamper's full track record, public and unalterable.
The same AI that lets bad actors forge EXIF metadata, generate plausible "original" images, strip C2PA signatures, or run adversarial perturbations to defeat perceptual hashing — that's exactly the AI we run defensively, on every inbound stamp.
The honest truth: no single defense is perfect, and the arms race is permanent. What we can do — and ship — is make fraud expensive (every signal we add raises the cost of getting away with it), detectable (the trust score on every listing is transparent), and reversible (counter-claim + DMCA + stake forfeit). The buyer always sees the full picture and decides whom to do business with.
We don't claim: "verified legal ownership." Legal ownership is determined by courts, contracts, and copyright registries — not by a SaaS platform.
We do claim — and prove — five things on every listing:
Buyers see all five signals on every listing — surfaced as a transparent trust score. Then they decide whom to do business with. We give them the data; the trust decision is theirs.
There are six things we explicitly refuse to do. They're the reason the Handshake works.
You decide what your work is worth. We don't run an algorithm that "suggests" a price you should accept.
When a buyer pays you $5,000 to license your video, we don't take $1,000 of it. The Handshake is free to use during beta. Long-term, we'll charge a flat listing fee — not a percentage of what you charge.
You retain 100% of all rights to everything you list. Listing on the Handshake grants StampRight a limited license to display your listing — nothing more.
We're a discovery layer, not a representative. We don't negotiate on your behalf, take exclusivity, or sign on your behalf.
Payments go directly from buyer to you. We facilitate the handshake; you handle the money however you want (Stripe Connect, bank transfer, invoice, etc.). An optional escrow service may come later.
Sellers can use the Handshake alongside any other platform. Buyers can contact you off-platform once a connection is made. We make the introduction; what you do with it is between you.
The first 100 listings are free, featured, and yours to keep.
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