Digital Policies
We’re heavily involved in the policy issues that are shaping digital content, including the Digital Service Act, the Digital Markets Act, GDPR, and platform liability for content uploaded online, the UK’s Online Safety Act.
Digital Policies
Request from Rightsholder organisations that DRCF investigate Meta’s new Privacy Policy
Following Meta’s proposals to update its privacy policies to allow training of AI models, societies representing copyright of visual artists, writers, performers and directors have jointly written to the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF), which was established in 2020 to cooperate on the regulation of online platforms, to investigate the matter.
Digital Policies
Google Joins IPTC to Shape News Media Standards
We are excited to share a significant development in the realm of news media standards: Google LLC has officially become a Voting Member of the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), a global technical standards body for the news media.
Digital Policies
IPTC releases technical guidance for creating and editing metadata, including DigitalSourceType
At IPTC we receive many requests for help and advice regarding editing embedded photo and video metadata, and this has only increased with the recent news about the IPTC Digital Source Type property being used to identify content created by a generative AI engine.
Digital Policies
Image rights information parity between IPTC and Schema.org
This is an up-dated on the Licensable Badge initiated in 2017 thanks to a fruitful cooperation of Google with CEPIC. The image rights metadata framework through Schema.org and IPTC now covers copyright fields.