Comite International des Telecommunications de Presse
Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
IPTC is the Global Standards Body of the News Media Our mission is to simplify the distribution of information. We develop and promote efficient technical standards to improve the management and exchange of information between content providers, intermediaries and consumers. We thereby enable easy, cost-effective and rapid innovation and product development. We are committed to open standards and make all of our standards freely available to our members and the wider community. Founded in 1965 and based in London, the IPTC brings together the world's leading news agencies, publishers and industry vendors.
EU Legislative Interests
Matters pertaining to AI training and usage of media content, copyright and content provenance. Contributing to the Text and Data Mining (TDM) opt-out consultation organised in the context of the AI Code of Practice.
Communication Activities
IPTC Media Provenance Summit: https://iptc.org/news/toronto-media-provenance-summit-2026/ IPTC AI opt-out guidelines: https://iptc.org/news/iptc-publishes-v2-0-of-ai-opt-out-guidlines/ Opt-out consultation response: https://iptc.org/news/iptc-responds-to-eu-consultation-on-ai-opt-out-implementation/
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
We have liaison agreements with the following organisations: (see https://iptc.org/about-iptc/liaison-partners/) * International Standards Organisation (ISO), international * Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA), Japan * The DPP, UK / Global * CEPIC, Belgium / Global * Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), USA / Global * Global Media Registry (GMR), Germany / Global * Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR) , USA / Global
Organisation Members
We have around 80 members comprising public and private media companies, software and hardware vendors, consultants and other industry associations. The full list can be accessed from https://iptc.org/about-iptc/current-members/