The IPTC has released a set of guidelines expressing best practices that publishers can follow to express the fact that they reserve data-mining rights on their copyrighted content. Read more...

The IPTC has provided input to a submission made by the Global Media Registry to the European Commission's European Democracy Shield consultation. Read more...

Over 60 senior technology, data and editorial staff from 43 top media companies around the world met in Juan les Pins, France and online for the IPTC Spring Meeting 2025. Read more...

Based on ideas that have arisen at recent conversations and working sessions at IPTC member meetings, we have built a simple service that supports the most common news syndication rights restrictions and permissions. We call it simplerights.iptc.org. Read more...

Next week, speakers from the National Geographic Society, Journalism Trust Initiative, Peking University and more will be presenting at the IPTC Spring Meeting in Juan les Pins, France. Read more...

Brendan Quinn of IPTC presented alongside Leonard Rosenthol of C2PA at the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Authentic Web workshop series this week. Read more...

The IPTC has created a RightsML Generator tool that shows how easy it can be to generate simple RightsML documents expressing a range of permissions and obligations around the use of media content. Read more...

The following is a guest post from Helge O. Svela, CEO of Media Cluster Norway. Media Cluster Norway joined the IPTC as Associate Members of IPTC in 2024 and Helge is the lead of the Provenance Best Practices and Implementation Working Group, where news publishers work together to talk about their progress in implementing C2PA and the IPTC Verified News Publisher programme within their organisations. Read more...

Broadcast and entertainment companies including Disney, Sony Pictures, Gracenote, Sinclair, Amazon MGM heard from the IPTC's Pam Fisher this week at the 2025 EIDR Annual Participant Meeting. Read more...