"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...

The International Press Telecommunications Council, in conjunction with Project Origin, has established a working group to create and manage a C2PA compatible list of verified news publishers. Read more...

The IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group has updated the IPTC Photo Metadata User Guide, including guidance for accessibility and for tagging AI-generated images with metadata. Read more...

After many years of working together in various areas related to media metadata, IPTC, the global technical standards body of the news media, today announces that Google LLC has joined IPTC as a Voting Member. Read more...