Liccium

What Liccium does

Liccium B.V. is a Dutch technology company headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands, providing digital content authentication and rights management infrastructure for creators, rightsholders, media organisations, AI providers, and regulatory bodies. The company enables users to digitally sign original works, bind rights and metadata to content via cryptographic signatures, and publish verifiable declarations to federated public registries. The platform is built on the International Standard Content Code (ISCC, ISO 24138:2024), W3C Verifiable Credentials, the W3C TDM Reservation Protocol, and IETF AI Preferences, with co-founder Sebastian Posth serving as co-initiator of ISCC and convenor of the underlying ISO working group.

The product portfolio spans Liccium Desktop (self-serve local certification for individual creators), Liccium Engine (on-premise B2B solution for large media organisations and platforms), the Liccium Cloud App (web application), and the Liccium API (Declaration, Metadata, and Search APIs). Supporting products include Creator Credentials (decentralised identity), the FAIA Statement Generator (AI involvement disclosure), the TDM Opt-out for WordPress plugin, and federated registries including TDM·AI, FAIA, and CommonsDB. Multiple products (Liccium Desktop, Chrome Extension, Search) are listed as 'coming soon' as of the latest disclosures.

Liccium operates a hybrid go-to-market combining product-led growth for individual creators through freemium subscription tiers and a sales-led motion for enterprise customers under modular pricing (one-time setup, recurring service tiers, volume-based pricing, optional development services). The company is primarily funded through European Union grants (agreements No. 957228 and No. 101093274), the CommonsDB pilot project, and Dutch public programmes (SIDN fonds, Topsector ICT), with no disclosed venture capital or private equity investment. The FAIA project is co-developed with Leiden University and the GO FAIR Foundation. No revenue, headcount, or named customer figures are publicly disclosed.

Name

Liccium

Legal name

Liccium B.V.

Website

https://liccium.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Liccium B.V. is a Dutch content authentication and rights management infrastructure provider that enables creators, media organisations, and AI platforms to digitally sign original works, bind verifiable rights metadata via ISCC (ISO 24138:2024), and publish declarations to federated registries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Rights Management

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Content Identification & Matching (Fingerprinting, ID Resolution) (MPAHALAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Directory Services & Identity Data Platforms (BPAMAEAG), Decentralized Identity (DID) & Verifiable Credentials (BPAMAEAJ), Verifiable Credentials & Attestations (VC issuance/verification, credential registries) (FSAPACAH)

Keywords

• Content certification platform
• Digital rights management
• Content fingerprinting technology
• Creator attribution tools
• AI training opt-out registry

Headquarters

HQ city

Leiden

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. B2C Subscription Plans: Tiered subscription model for individual creators using the Liccium Cloud App, with a free plan offering essential features and limited declarations, paid plans scaling with needs including higher storage and plugin access, and professional plans for studios managing large portfolios.
2. B2B Declaration Engine: Modular pricing for media organisations including one-time setup/onboarding fee, ongoing monthly service tiers covering hosting, registry access, and support, volume-based tiers for large-scale declarations, and optional development services.
3. Registry Infrastructure Services: Federated registry infrastructure services for both B2C and B2B clients enabling discovery of rights and metadata, with developer tools including Docker images and API documentation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Liccium provides infrastructure and applications for creators and rightsholders to digitally sign their original works and make verifiable claims about ownership, attribution, and authenticity. The platform combines an enterprise on-premise declaration engine (Liccium Engine), a creator-facing web application (Liccium Cloud App), developer APIs, decentralised identity (Creator Credentials), AI attribution disclosure tools (FAIA), and federated public registries for rights and opt-out declarations, all built on the ISCC (ISO 24138:2024) content fingerprinting standard and W3C Verifiable Credentials.

Product overview

Liccium is a content certification and rights management platform providing infrastructure for creators and rightsholders to digitally sign original works and make verifiable declarations about ownership, attribution, and authenticity. The product portfolio consists of Liccium Desktop (desktop app for individual creators), Liccium Engine (on-premise B2B solution for media organisations), Liccium Cloud App (web application), Liccium B2B Declaration Engine (enterprise API solution), and Liccium API (developer APIs). Supporting products include Creator Credentials (decentralised identity), Liccium Search (search engine), Liccium Chrome Extension (browser verification), FAIA Statement Generator (AI disclosure tool), TDM Opt-out for WordPress (CMS plugin), and federated registries (TDM·AI, FAIA, CommonsDB) for content discovery. All products leverage ISCC (ISO 24138:2024) content fingerprinting, W3C Verifiable Credentials, and cryptographic signatures for tamper-proof verification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Liccium Desktop: Desktop application for individual creators to certify content, runs on user's own device with no content upload required.
• Liccium Engine
• Creator Credentials
• Liccium Search
• FAIA Statement Generator
• TDM Opt-out for WordPress

Products and services

• Liccium Engine On-premise solution for large media organisations, platforms, provenance services, and AI providers to generate, sign, and publish verifiable declarations across entire catalogues with integration into existing workflows.
• Liccium B2B Declaration Engine Enterprise on-premise solution for media organisations to efficiently manage large-scale content declarations with API support, bulk ingestion, and integration with CMS or asset management systems.
• Liccium Cloud App Web application for individual creators to digitally sign and declare ownership, rights, and metadata for content, ensuring claims remain verifiable even if metadata is removed or files are modified.
• Liccium API Suite of APIs (Declaration, Metadata, Search) enabling developers to integrate content verification, rights declarations, and provenance metadata into their software and services, with X.509 and verifiable credential authentication.
• Creator Credentials Decentralised, user-controlled digital identity solution for creators and rightsholders, enabling verifiable credentials issued by trust anchors (media organisations, membership associations, collective management organisations) to bind verifiable identity to signed declarations.
• FAIA Statement Generator Tool to disclose how AI helped in content creation, enabling transparent documentation of AI involvement with machine-readable flags (HCC, AAC, AIG) and activity codes.
• TDM·AI Registry Federated registry for machine-readable opt-out declarations for text and data mining, enabling AI providers to automatically discover and respect content creators' preferences.
• FAIA Registry Federated registry for AI attribution declarations, enabling transparent disclosure of AI involvement in content creation.
• CommonsDB Public registry for public domain and openly licensed works, bringing greater legal certainty to the reuse of digital content.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability7 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Leiden UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAIA (Fair AI Attribution) project is developed by Liccium in collaboration with Leiden University and the GO FAIR Foundation, addressing transparency in digital publishing and research.
• GO FAIR FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFAIA (Fair AI Attribution) project is developed by Liccium in collaboration with Leiden University and the GO FAIR Foundation, supporting FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles in AI attribution.
• TDM·AI EcosystemcoreTechnology or IntegrationTDM·AI is a protocol for machine-readable opt-out declarations for AI training, binding opt-out declarations to ISCC codes. Liccium implements this protocol and maintains the opt-out registry infrastructure.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Attestiv: Attestiv provides AI-powered content authentication and tamper-detection for media and insurance workflows. Comparable to Liccium's instant-verification and provenance-checking functionality for digital content.
• Starling Lab: Starling Lab focuses on cryptographic authentication and content provenance for journalism and human-rights documentation. Comparable to Liccium's news/journalist segment use cases for content authenticity verification.

Direct peers

• Videntifier: Videntifier provides content identification and fingerprint-matching technology for broadcasters and rights holders. Directly comparable to Liccium's ISCC content fingerprinting for media-organisation rights and metadata workflows.
• Truepic: Truepic provides content authentication and digital provenance technology including camera-level signing and content credentials for media and enterprise. Directly competes with Liccium's content certification and registry approach across the same customer segments.
• Adobe Content Credentials: Adobe's content authenticity initiative (built on C2PA) provides cryptographic provenance and attribution for digital media. Most direct overlap with Liccium's content certification and verifiable declarations for creators and media organisations.
• Pixsy: Pixsy provides copyright protection and image-tracking services for photographers and creators. Comparable to Liccium's individual-creator use cases for ownership claims and AI opt-out, though more focused on reverse-image enforcement than declaration infrastructure.
• Numbers Protocol: Numbers Protocol operates a decentralised content provenance network using blockchain-backed content fingerprints for digital assets. Closely comparable to Liccium's ISCC-based, decentralised-credential model for creator attribution and rights tracking.
• Project Origin: Project Origin is an initiative (BBC, Microsoft, The New York Times, etc.) building provenance infrastructure for news media. Competes in the same media-organisation and news authentication space as Liccium's Liccium Engine.

Broad incumbents

• Digimarc: Digimarc is an established digital watermarking and content identification vendor serving media, retail, and packaging. Overlaps with Liccium's content identification value proposition but uses embedded watermarks rather than fingerprint soft-binding.
• IPTC: IPTC is the standards body for news and photo metadata (used in Liccium's plugin layer). Adjacent because IPTC metadata standards underpin both Liccium's and competitors' content declaration workflows.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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