Wacom Yuify Beta
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What is Wacom Yuify?
Wacom Yuify [ ̍ʝ uː i . f a i ] is a service that allows artists to protect their artwork, manage usage rights, and establish legally binding license permissions. Yuify enables artists to secure their exports...
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How can I access Wacom Yuify?
If you are located in an EU country, in UK, Norway, Switzerland or the USA you can just go to https://yuify.com/learn-more and watch the videos or follow the instructions how to get started. If you don't have...
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What does Yuifying mean?
Yuifying or micro-marking is the process of securing your artwork with Yuify. It involves using Yuify tool in your creative application to securely export your content, that injects invisible pixels into the ...
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What does Yuifinder mean?
Yuifinder is a tool built within the Yuify app but also availble to other applications/platforms to inspect the secured record of the artwork. Just drag and drop an artwork in yuifinder to find if it has a Yu...
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Do I need a Wacom device to use the Wacom Yuify service?
No, you do not need to work on a Wacom device to use the Wacom Yuify service. Your artwork can be secured on creative applications directly and can be managed with Yuify web app. For questions or feedback ar...
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What personal information do I need to provide to prove my identity to open a Yuify account?
You only need the information provided with your Wacom ID information to use the Yuify Application (Name, email). Only when you want to create a legally binding contract using the Yuify service, an address n...
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How secure are my yuify'd artworks?
A permanent record of your export event is created which acts as proof of your first registration and has supportive data that helps you establish your record as the creator. Since these records are permanent...
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What file formats can I export yuify'd?
Currently we support JPEG and PNG file formats only. We are working on supporting other file formats such as TIFF, PDF, GIF etc. as well. For questions or feedback around Wacom Yuify, please reach out here.
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How robust is the Yuify micro-mark against changes on the artwork?
Yuify embeds a digital ID into the artwork to preserve the identity of the image and thus the technology is being built to be resilient. We will continue working on preserving the digital ID so preserve the r...
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What If I am working on a confidential project?
You can always set your project to "private" in the project options. That will block the image and other confidential information registered with your content when you share the link. This will ensure that no...
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What if I don't want to use my real name on Yuify?
Yuify provides you the option to enter your alias name instead of your real name that you want to associate with the art. You have to use your real name on Wacom ID to create agreements that have legal validi...
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What if there are more than one artist working on a Yuify project?
Yuify enables the option to register multiple artists to an artwork permanently. The artist that registered the work will be the admin and have all the rights to the project , whereas contributors only have t...
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Can I use Yuify to give out licenses for a derivative work?
Yes, depending on the type of development license you used, you can give out licenses with non commercial, commercial and exclusive license rights. For questions or feedback around Wacom Yuify, please reach ...
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Yuify registration & Secure export or Micromarking issues
There could be several reasons why it can fail with one of these topics Insufficient credentials for registration: Secure export requires the application to provide credentials that can be attributed to th...
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Which technologies are used in Yuify?
Yuify utilises the following technologies: Micromarking to embed a decentralized identifier in the visual data SSI / Blockchain to create permanent records of creation and link author to content. C2PA as a d...
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Why does Yuify use Blockchain?
Blockchain is used by Wacom Yuify so that the records of creators, creations and licenses are permanently stored and cannot be tampered with. We use this technology to ensure that under no circumstances can y...
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But are blockchains not energy intensive?
CRI (Creative Rights Initiative) uses a blockchain that this allows Yuify and partners to record transaction as authorities without using high power verification mechanisms. By this we ensure that records are...
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Since Yuify use blockchain, does that have anything to do with NFTs?
No, Yuify has nothing to do with NFTs. The usage of blockchain is to ensure that your creation and license records are permanent and cannot be tampered with. We are not creating digital assets that can be tra...
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Does Yuify store my files?
No, Yuify does not store your files. Yuify only keeps a record of the export of the file to prove the creation of the content. The export image with the digital ID is saved where you specify during the secure...
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Do I need a Wacom ID to use Yuify?
Yes, some applications you need a Wacom ID to log in directly to Yuify and secure your artwork (e.g. Photoshop). In other applications (e.g. Clip Studio Paint and Reblle) you can start using Yuify without a w...
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What are Secured Exports?
In Yuify, your exports are your record of creations that contain a visual identifier, you can assign exports to form a project and add licenses. For questions or feedback around Wacom Yuify, please reach out ...
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What are Yuify Licenses?
Yuify enables a robust licensing mechanism that requires both parties to sign the agreement in order for it to be valid. Yuify licenses are legally binding documents that define the rights that the creator gi...
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How to work with Yuify license?
How can I create a Yuify license? Yuify license can be created for a project. When you have some export file/s in your Yuify web application you can create a project and set up licenses during the project set...
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