Sony patents system that tracks AI-generated content sources
Sony describes a system that checks if original content is legally allowed to be used as a base for new creations. It then generates new content using an AI model and attaches metadata that links the new work back to the original source.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing system including a content generation unit that generates content with use of one or more pieces of material data generated from original content, and a metadata addition unit that adds, to the content, content metadata including material information associated with the material data used for generation of the content and generation information associated with generation of the content.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing system, comprising: circuitry configured to: receive first metadata that is associated with first content, wherein the first metadata includes use license information, the use license information indicates availability for derivative creation or a derivative copyrighted work for the first content; determine, based on the use license information, whether use of the first content for the derivative creation or the derivative copyrighted work is allowed; generate second content based on: an application of an artificial intelligence generation model on at least one part of the first content, and determination that the use of the first content for the derivative creation or the derivative copyrighted work is allowed; and associate second metadata with the second content based on the generation of the second content, wherein second metadata includes information that indicates the first content.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260330576A1
- Application number
- 19728753
- Filed
- Jul 2, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06Q 50/184 Physics & computingG06N 3/08 Physics & computingG06Q 2220/18 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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