Regional laws applying to an asset may prohibit, constrain, or allow data mining for certain purposes (such as search indexing or research), and may overrule the value selected for this property. The IPTC and PLUS Consortium wish to draw users attention to the following notice included in the specification: Specifically, the new properties are as follows: The new properties are now finalised and published.

The properties are defined as part of the PLUS schema and incorporated into the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard in the same way that other properties such as Copyright Owner have been specified.

(Of course, this requires that the embedded metadata is not stripped out by such tools.)Ĭreated in a close collaboration with PLUS Coalition, the publication of the new properties comes after the conclusion of a public draft review period earlier this year. The standard was approved by IPTC members on 4th October 2023 and the specifications are now publicly available.īecause these data fields, like all IPTC Photo Metadata, are embedded in the file itself, the information will be retained even after an image is moved from one place to another, for example by syndicating an image or moving an image through a Digital Asset Management system or Content Management System used to publish a website. These values can show that data mining is prohibited or allowed either in general, for AI or Machine Learning purposes or for generative AI/ML purposes. The new version 2023.1 of the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard now provides means to do this: a field named 'Data Mining' and a standardised list of values, adopted from the PLUS Coalition. Many image rights owners noticed that their assets were being used as training data for generative AI image creators, and asked the IPTC for a way to express that such use is prohibited.

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