The IPTC participated in a "design team" workshop for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)'s AI Preferences Working Group. Brendan Quinn, IPTC Managing Director attended the workshop in London along with representatives from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Anthropic, Meta, Adobe, Common Crawl and more. Read more...

The IPTC Video Metadata Working Group has released version 1.6 of its Video Metadata Hub standard, including terms for rights usage, language, and content created by Generative AI models. Read more...

The latest version of NewsML-G2, version 2.35 has been released, adding support for the status of events. Read more...

The IPTC is excited to announce the latest updates to ninjs, our JSON-based standard for representing news content metadata. Version 3.1 is now available, along with updated versions 2.2 and 1.6 for those using earlier schemas. Read more...

"As content becomes commoditised, there will be a trend towards authentic, human-created work," said Scott Belsky at the 2025 Content Authenticity Summit, held last week on Roosevelt Island, New York. Read more...

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...

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...

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