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 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...

Read more...

Together with partner organisation the PLUS Coalition, the IPTC has submitted a response to the UK Intellectual Property Office's consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.       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...

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...

The IPTC News Architecture Working Group is happy to announce the release of NewsML-G2 version 2.34. Read more...

Following the IPTC's recent announcement that Rights holders can exclude images from generative AI with IPTC Photo Metadata Standard 2023.1 , the IPTC Video Metadata Working Group  is very happy to announce that the same capability now exists for video, through IPTC Video Metadata Hub version 1.5. Read more...

Updated in June 2024 to include an image containing the new metadata property Read more...