Media Releases

23 May 2013	IPTC Photo Metadata Conference "Image Rights - Manage them or Lose Them"
12 March 2013	IPTC study shows some social media networks routinely remove rights information from photos
26 April 2012	New RightsML standard to express news usage rights enters trial phase
29 March 2012	Finding Images is the Key to Effective Photo Business
13 December 2011	New campaign to embed information permanently in digital media
30 November 2011	IPTC's rNews standard for metadata in web pages ready for production use
27 September 2011	schema.org adopts IPTC's rNews for news markup
15 June 2011	Vincent Baby new Chairman of the Board of Directors of IPTC
14 June 2011	IPTC approves rNews draft v 0.5 - next step towards production version
8 June 2011	News syndication version of ACAP ready for launch and management handed over to the IPTC
20 May 2011	IPTC Challenges Media Vendors to join the dots on Metadata
20 May 2011	CEPIC and IPTC release Image Metadata Handbook
5 April 2011	IPTC releases rNews standard draft for embedding metadata in online news
15 July 2010	New IPTC-PLUS Toolkit boosts easy use of photo metadata with Adobe products
13 April 2010	The world’s major news players adopt IPTC G2 for news exchange
24 February 2010	Business meets technology at the IPTC Spring Meeting
7 December 2009	IPTC G2-Standards add power to the news exchange
25 March 2009	IPTC publishes guidelines for its new G2-Standards
14 Oct 2008	New Web Portal for all IPTC Standards
10 Oct 2008	IPTC and PLUS welcome Metadata Group Guidelines
17 Sep 2008	Simplifying News Exchange with IPTC G2-Standards
18 July 2008	New IPTC standards for sports data and photography
26 Feb 2008	Exchanging News Made Easy with IPTC G2-Standards
23 October 2007	Sharing Event Calendars Gets Easier as IPTC Approves New Standard
6 June 2007	IPTC released Photo Metadata White Paper - test phase for G2-standards will be launched
3 April 2007	IPTC and Ifra launch the first international Photo Metadata Conference in June 2007
18 July 2006	IPTC will launch its new “G2 Family of Standards” in 2007

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