How are copyright infringements verified when a photo is initially made in JPEG, not raw?
Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP .everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty margin-bottom:0; up vote 23 down vote favorite Suppose I make a photo and publish it and then find that someone else published it and claimed it's their photo. Or any similar situation - it doesn't matter. So one of the parties of such an argument decides to prove that they were indeed the author of the photo and the other party just unfairly claims authorship. I heard owning a raw version of the photo is a commonly accepted proof. The author somehow shows that they have a raw version and the other party doesn't have such and so the other party loses the argument. This assumes the author doesn't initially publish the raw photo of course. What if the photo was taken in JPEG initially? There're many cameras which don't output raw at all - they only output JPEG. Now one person has a JPEG and another person has a JPEG and how do we know who was the...