CopySight AI Inc., the Mar Vista–based artificial intelligence governance platform, announced in late July that it raised $3 million in seed funding. West Hollywood–based Mucker Capital led the round, with additional participation from Flint Capital, Yellow Rocks and Taisu VC.
“We see CopySight as defining the IP layer for generative AI and modern content creation,” David Borcsok, a partner at Mucker Capital, said in a statement. “AI cannot scale without trust.”
How CopySight AI’s CopyScore V2 assesses copyright risk
CopySight also launched CopyScore V2 at the end of July. The platform scans AI-generated images and videos for brands, logos, copyrighted characters, celebrity likenesses and well–established art styles, then produces a risk score that indicates how much copyrighted or likeness-related imagery is present. Assessments are recorded in a blockchain-like log intended to help protect content from potential copyright-infringement lawsuits.
Since January, CopySight has made 87,000 determinations about copyright and IP risks and says its usage has grown 25-fold. Customers include the downtown-based independent entertainment studio AGBO, the AI media generator OpenArt.ai and the law firm ArentFox Schiff.
“AI has completely unlocked how we create, but hitting a piece of protected IP is just a factual reality of the process right now,” Artem Petrov, co-founder and chief executive of CopySight, said in a statement. “Foundational models, Hollywood studios, individual creators, everyone downstream needs the exact same thing: objective proof that what they just made is safe to ship.”
Generative AI models are typically trained on existing images scraped from the internet, and those models can sometimes produce content that reproduces copyrighted work. Platforms such as Midjourney Inc. and StabilityAI have faced lawsuits over such issues. In 2023, a group of artists filed a class-action lawsuit against several generative AI companies, and in 2025 The Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal and Warner Bros. filed suits against AI video-generation companies that allegedly used copyrighted characters.
CopySight joins other firms working to navigate AI-related copyright questions. West Hollywood–based SmarterLicense launched a content-licensing platform in beta in 2024 to help creators secure potential copyrights in their work. “Now we’re starting to see that maybe there are more rights that are copyrightable, especially as digital media tools start to evolve,” Liz Hagelthorn, the founder of SmarterLicense, said in 2024. “That might be likeness, tone, it could be AI training data. There are all these other rights that need protecting that the Copyright Office can’t really keep up with.”
More broadly, generative AI has spawned an industry of companies focused on verifying AI-generated content for purposes ranging from legal protection in entertainment to detecting academic cheating and tracking ownership across content supply chains.
