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...

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...

"It has never been more important to safeguard authentic news media," say the organisers.  Read more...

The IPTC has developed a Wordpress plugin that automatically signs all images and video content published on a Wordpress site. It has been put to use to automatically sign all images attached to IPTC news posts, such as this one, at the moment of publishing.  Read more...

The IPTC has responded to a multi-stakeholder consultation on the recently-agreed European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act). Read more...

AMSTERDAM, 13 September 2024 -- The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) has announced Phase 1 of the IPTC Verified News Publishers List at the International Broadcast Convention (IBC). Read more...

The IPTC has signed a liaison agreement with the Japanese camera-makers organisation and creators of the Exif metadata standard, CIPA. Read more...

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), a Committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) which decides on standards and protocols that are used to govern the workings of Internet infrastructure, is having a workshop in September on "AI Control". Discussions will include whether one or more new IETF standards should be defined to govern how AI systems work with Internet content. Read more...

A few months in, things are going very well for the IPTC's new Media Provenance Committee. Read more...