Tuesday's IPTC Photo Metadata Conference was a great success. With 12 speakers from the media and software industries and over 200 people registered, it continues to be the largest gathering of photo and image metadata experts globally. Read more...

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

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Google has added Digital Source Type support to Google Merchant Center, enabling images created by generative AI engines to be flagged as such in Google's products such as Google search, maps, YouTube and Google Shopping. Read more...

Yesterday Nick Clegg, Meta's President of Global Affairs, announced that Meta would be using IPTC embedded photo metadata to label AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. 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...

The IPTC NewsML-G2 Working Group and the News Architecture Working Group are happy to announce the release of the latest version of our flagship XML-based news syndication standard: NewsML-G2 v2.33. Read more...

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

The IPTC NewsCodes Working Group has approved an addition to the Digital Source Type NewsCodes vocabulary. Read more...

Following the recent announcements of Google's signalling of generative AI content and Midjourney and Shutterstock the day after, Microsoft has now announced that it will also be signalling the provenance of content created by Microsoft's generative AI tools such as Bing Image Creator. Read more...