A Scalable Dual-Layer Blockchain Framework for Trustworthy and Efficient Full-Lifecycle AIGC Copyright Management

Abstract

With the rapid development of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), large-scale AI-Generated Content (AIGC) has been widely produced, raising critical challenges in trustworthy copyright management. Blockchain-based copyright registration or trading have become a research hotspot, but existing solutions focus on isolated stages and fail to support the full lifecycle of AIGC content, while copyright management performance, infringement detection capability, and copyright query efficiency remain challenging. To address these challenges, we designed a dual-layer blockchain framework for full-lifecycle AIGC copy-right management, which supports coordinated copyright registration, verification, trading, and traceability. The proposed framework adopts a dual-layer architecture with a main chain and multiple sub-chains, and integrates sharding with a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) parallel ledger to improve system scalability. Specifically, a Perceptual Hash (pHash)-based similarity detection method is introduced for copyright registration to identify plagiarism and unauthorized duplication; a hybrid indexed sharded query mechanism is designed for efficient and verifiable copyright verification; and cryptographic techniques together with zero-knowledge proofs are incorporated to enable secure and non-repudiable copyright trading. Experimental results show that the designed framework delivers about 1.1× higher throughput and achieves roughly a 29× reduction in transaction latency compared with single-chain blockchains, while the proposed query mechanism reduces query latency by up to 56× across different shard scales. These results validate the capability of the proposed framework to support secure, efficient, and scalable AIGC copyright management.