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Jun 28 2023 PLUS publishes draft standard for image data mining restrictions

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.

Review the draft revisions in this read-only Google doc, which includes a link to a form for leaving comments.

Here is a summary of the new property:

XMP Property plus:DataMining
XMP Value Type URL
XMP Category External
Namespace URI http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/xmp/1.0/DataMining
Comments
  • A prohibition on the data mining of an asset may or may not not prohibit use of that asset under applicable regional laws, which may or may not permit data mining for purposes such as search, research, and search indexing.
  • The PLUS “Other Constraints” property is human readable. The IPTC properties “Embedded Encoded Rights Expression” and “Linked Rights Expression” are machine readable.
Cardinality 0..1

According to the PLUS proposal, the value of the property would be a value from the following controlled vocabulary:

CV Term URI Description
http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-UNSPECIFIED Neither allowed nor prohibited
http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-ALLOWED Allowed
http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-ALLOWED-noaitraining Allowed except for AI/ML training
http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-ALLOWED-noaigentraining Allowed except for AI/ML generative training
http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-PROHIBITED Prohibited
http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-SEE-constraint Allowed with constraints expressed in Other Constraints property
http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-SEE-embeddedrightsexpr Allowed with constraints expressed in IPTC Embedded Encoded Rights Expression property

http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-SEE-linkedrightsexpr

Allowed with constraints expressed in IPTC Linked Encoded Rights Expression property

The public comment period will close on July 20, 2023.

If it is accepted by the PLUS membership and published as a PLUS property, the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group plans to adopt this new property into a new version of the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard at the IPTC Autumn Meeting in October 2023.

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