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.
CopySight was built to help entertainment studios determine whether AI-generated media is copyright-free — and to help them avoid exactly that kind of infringement risk.
“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.”
For as long as generative artificial intelligence has existed, a problem has plagued the creative industries it was meant to serve such as copyright laws, and how they work when it comes to this novel, new technology.
Because generative AI models are trained on existing images scraped from the internet – made by anyone from a DeviantArt hobbyist to massive intellectual property machines – these models may generate an image that cut-and-pastes from a copyrighted piece of media.
Platforms like Midjourney Inc. and StabilityAI have been hit by lawsuits. In 2023, a handful of artists filed a class action lawsuit against several generative AI companies. In 2025, The Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal and Warner Bros. filed lawsuits against AI video generation companies that allegedly used copyrighted characters.
How the platform works
CopySight also launched CopyScore V2 at the end of July. The platform scans AI-generated images or videos for brands, logos, copyrighted characters, celebrity likenesses, and well–established art styles. From there, it generates a risk score that indicates how much copyright-protected and likeness-related imagery is present in the content. Its assessments are recorded in a blockchain-like log that further protects the content from potential copyright infringement lawsuits.
Since January, it has made 87,000 determinations regarding copyright and IP risks and has increased its usage 25-fold. CopySight users 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.”
CopySight joins several companies working to navigate the complex, murky waters of AI-generated copyright infringement. West Hollywood-based SmarterLicense launched its 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, told the Business Journal 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 than that, generative AI has created an entire industry of companies dedicated to verifying its information – whether it is for legally protecting the entertainment sector, detecting cheating in the classroom, or tracking ownership throughout the content supply chain.
