In September 2022, IPTC Managing Director Brendan Quinn was invited to attend a workshop at the Royal Society in London, held in conjunction with the BBC. It was convened to discuss concerns about content provenance, threats to society due to misinformation and disinformation, and the idea of a "public-service internet." Read more...

In partnership with the IPTC, the PLUS Coalition has published for public comment a draft on proposed revisions to the PLUS License Data Format standard. The changes cover a proposed standard for expressing image data mining permissions, constraints and prohibitions. This includes declaring in image files whether an image can be used as part of a training data set used to train a generative AI model. Read more...

CIPA, the Camera and Imaging Products Association based in Japan, has released version 3.0 of the Exif standard for camera data. Read more...

The IPTC is very happy to announce that it has joined the Steering Committee of Project Origin, one of the industry’s key initiatives to fight misinformation online through the use of tamper-evident metadata embedded in media files. Read more...

IPTC Managing Director Brendan Quinn presented at the European Broadcasting Union's Data Technology Seminar last week. Read more...

Our friends at CEPIC are running a webinar in conjunction with Google on the Licensable badge in search results. The webinar is TODAY, February 21st, so there are still a few hours left to join. Read more...

We are happy to announce that IPTC's work with C2PA, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authority, continues to bear fruit. The latest development is that C2PA assertions can now include properties from both the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard and our video metadata standard, IPTC Video Metadata Hub. Read more...

Alamy, a stock photo agency offering a collection of over 300 million images along with millions of videos, has recently launched a new Partnerships API, and has chosen IPTC's ninjs 2.0 standard as the main format behind the API. Read more...

Family Tree magazine has published a guide on using embedded metadata for photographs in genealogy - the study of family history. Read more...

The IPTC took part in a panel on Diversity and Inclusion at the CEPIC Congress 2022, the picture industry's annual get-together, held this year in Mallorca Spain. Read more...