PikGuard
A7F2C9  Willow & Kiln Studio  verified original  ·  2 min agoD31B84  Northlight Press  record opened  ·  11 min ago5C09EE  Marlow Ceramics  300 works archived  ·  24 min agoB7740A  Fern & Fable  priority check clear  ·  38 min agoE1C552  Ashgrove Paper Co  match check — hit  ·  51 min ago2FA9D0  Kestrel Studio  filed with USCO  ·  1 hr agoA7F2C9  Willow & Kiln Studio  verified original  ·  2 min agoD31B84  Northlight Press  record opened  ·  11 min ago5C09EE  Marlow Ceramics  300 works archived  ·  24 min agoB7740A  Fern & Fable  priority check clear  ·  38 min agoE1C552  Ashgrove Paper Co  match check — hit  ·  51 min ago2FA9D0  Kestrel Studio  filed with USCO  ·  1 hr ago
Record of origination — est. 2026

Prove you
made it first.

A marketplace found your photographs on Temu and decided you were the copycat. Your listing is down. PikGuard is the record that shows what you made, and when.

Free to register. No card. The evidence pack is only needed if something goes wrong.

Certificate of recordNo. A7F2C9
RegistrantWillow & Kiln Studio
WorkTerracotta Mug — 04
In possession since2024-02-03 09:12 UTC
Priority checkCLEAR
Source filesON RECORD
LevelVERIFIED ORIGINAL
SHA-256
8f2aa205699b5b1b2f5494596d16f42d
ad3551cd0baf6ef216f46ee4b0efce95
ON RECORDpikguard.com/verify
Verify a certificate

01  You register the file

02  We fix the date

03  We check nobody had it earlier

04  You get evidence, not a guess

§ 01 — Mechanism

A stamp, a safe, and a witness who is not us.

Most tools in this category hand you a hash and call it proof. A hash proves a file existed. It does not prove you made it. So we do four separate things, and we say plainly what each one is worth.

01

Register

Upload your originals and the files behind them. We fingerprint every one, fix the moment it entered the record, and write your copyright into the file itself.

SHA-256 · perceptual hash
IPTC and XMP written
Invisible mark on photographs
Proves: possession and date
02

Verify

Before we certify anything, we check the image is not already published somewhere older. Then we ask for the layered file, the camera original, the drafts. The things a copy cannot produce.

Priority check at registration
Source materials required
One external dated artefact
Proves: you are the origin
03

Witness

Every month we send your live listings to a public archive that we do not control. Month after month, an independent record of what you published and when. It cannot be built backwards.

Independent third-party archive
Timestamps outside our reach
Compounds while you sleep
Proves: publication priority
04

Defend

If a listing comes down, we assemble the dossier: the dates, the forensics, the source proof, the archive links, and the appeal, laid out to be read in sixty seconds by someone who does not want to read.

Delivered in 48 hours
Submitted by you, in your name
One free revision if refused
Proves: the case, in one document
§ 02 — Forensics

Not “these look similar”. Measured.

Below is a real comparison. The file on the right was taken from the file on the left, cropped, shrunk to 40 percent and saved twice. Everything a copycat does. Here is what survived.

Original
The original2000 px · 271 KB · EXIF intact
Suspect file
The suspect file800 px · 21 KB · EXIF stripped
Difference map
Both files subtractedEdges are compression, not content
6/64Hash distance. 6 or below is the same image
99.7%Pixels identical after alignment
17+Where unrelated products measure
27 moBetween the original and the copy’s first trace
§ 03 — The mark

A quiet signal that this shop keeps records.

Every registered shop gets the mark. It is not a watermark and it never touches your product photograph. It goes where it helps: your banner, your about page, your pins, your digital files. Copycats skip the shop that can prove things.

Shop bannerAbout sectionLast image slotPinterest pinInside PDFs Never on the hero image
Protected by PikGuardWide
banners
Protected by PikGuardCompact
about & pins
PikGuard sealSeal
PDFs & last image slot
§ 04 — Terms

Free to be ready. Paid when it goes wrong.

The record costs nothing, because a record is only worth anything if you made it before the trouble started. You pay us when there is trouble, or when you want the protection to be real rather than merely documented.

The Vault
Open a record
Free
forever

Twenty-five works fingerprinted, dated and certified. Copyright written into your files. The badge for your shop.

  • 25 works
  • Certificate page
  • Badge kit
  • No card
Protected
Working shop
$79
per year

Five hundred works, the invisible mark on photographs, unlimited match checks, fifty listings sent to the public archive every month.

  • 500 works
  • Invisible mark
  • Match checks
  • 50 archived / mo
Studio
Full catalogue
$179
per year

Two and a half thousand works, three hundred listings archived monthly, more than one shop, and one evidence pack included each year.

  • 2,500 works
  • 300 archived / mo
  • Multi-shop
  • 1 pack included
Strongest protection
Registered Originals
Filed, not just recorded
$299
per year

Everything above, plus twenty works filed with the United States Copyright Office in your name. Government fee included.

  • Everything in Studio
  • USCO filing
  • 20 works
  • Fee included
Emergency
Evidence Pack
Something has gone wrong
$99
per listing

The full dossier and the appeal, built by hand, delivered in forty-eight hours. Shop deactivation from $449. Free case check first, and if the evidence cannot help you, I will say so and you pay nothing.

  • 48 hours
  • Free case check
  • One free revision
  • No fit, no fee

Prices are per year, not per month, because the trouble this protects against is rare and sudden, and nobody should be paying us monthly for something they hope never happens.

§ 05 — Limits

What this is not.

Everyone in this market oversells. Here is the version that survives a hostile question, which is the only version worth putting on a website.

Not proof of ownership by itself

A timestamp shows possession on a date. Anyone can upload anything. That is why we run the priority check, require your source files, and mark the difference between a plain record and a verified one on the certificate.

Not a takedown service

We never file against anyone and never act as your agent. We build the document. You submit it, in your own name. The dossier proves that you are the origin. It renders no verdict on anybody else.

Not a guarantee

The platform decides, not us. If your first appeal is refused we revise the pack once and you resubmit at no cost. Anyone promising reinstatement is selling you something they cannot deliver.

Not magic on line art

The invisible mark works on photographs and flat colour work. On black-and-white line art it does not survive a marketplace upload, so we do not sell it to you. Those files get fingerprints, dates and archive records instead.

Open a record

It takes four minutes now.
It cannot be done afterwards.