Brendan Quinn

Detroit, Philadelphia

Sports Writer at The Athletic

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IPTC announces Beta release of simplerights.iptc.org service

3 days ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

Based on ideas that have arisen at recent conversations and working sessions at IPTC member meetings, we have built a simple service that supports the most common news syndication rights restrictions and permissions. We call it simplerights.iptc.org. Based on the IPTC’s RightsML standard, which is effectively the same as the W3C’s ODRL, the service allows simple RightsML restrictions to be expressed as simple web URIs (Uniform Resource Indicators).
Provenance, AI, opt-out and more at next week's IPTC Spring Meeting 2025

6 days ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

Next week, speakers from the National Geographic Society, Journalism Trust Initiative, Peking University and more will be presenting at the IPTC Spring Meeting in Juan les Pins, France. This year’s event is being held in collaboration with CEPIC, the industry group for the image licensing industry, with whom IPTC has a long association.
IPTC and C2PA present at W3C Authentic Web workshop

1 week ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

Brendan Quinn of IPTC presented alongside Leonard Rosenthol of C2PA at the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s Authentic Web workshop series this week. This was the second in a series of online workshops run by the W3C in an effort to bring together the various work on trust, provenance, credibility and authenticity. The first part of the Authentic Web workshop was run in March 2025.
IPTC announces RightsML generator tool

1 week ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

The IPTC has created a RightsML Generator tool that shows how easy it can be to generate simple RightsML documents expressing a range of permissions and obligations around the use of media content. RightsML is the IPTC’s standard for expressing rights usage statements that can be used for all types of media content, from images and video clips through to AI data, data sets and 3D models.
Project Reynir: A concrete weapon against disinformation

1 week ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

The following is a guest post from Helge O. Svela, CEO of Media Cluster Norway. Media Cluster Norway joined the IPTC as Associate Members of IPTC in 2024 and Helge is the lead of the Provenance Best Practices and Implementation Working Group, where news publishers work together to talk about their progress in implementing C2PA and the IPTC Verified News Publisher programme within their organisations.
IPTC at EIDR 2025

1 week ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

Broadcast and entertainment companies from Disney to Sony, Gracenote, Sinclair, Amazon MGM and more heard from the IPTC’s Pam Fisher this week at the 2025 EIDR Annual Participant Meeting. Pam is Lead of the IPTC Video Metadata Working Group, maintainers of the IPTC Video Metadata Hub standard. Pam spoke about IPTC’s work in video metadata and also our efforts in publisher provenance and credibility, particularly the work of the IPTC Media Provenance Committee.
Adobe tools support the full IPTC Photo Metadata spec via the Custom Metadata Panel plugin

2 weeks ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

At the 2024 IPTC Photo Metadata Conference, James Lockman of Adobe’s Digital Media Services division demonstrated the Custom Metadata Panel, a tool that allows users to create their own user interface for editing sets of metadata fields. Since that time, the IPTC has worked with James and his team to make the tool even more useful, supporting the full set of IPTC properties and even enabling IPTC Photo Metadata as the default view in the tool.
IPTC NewsCodes 2025-Q1 release

1 month ago | iptc.org | Brendan Quinn

The IPTC NewsCodes Working Group is pleased to present the Q1 2025 release of IPTC NewsCodes. As usual, most of the updates are in our flagship subject vocabulary, Media Topics. Media Topic updatesThis release adds 8 new concepts, retires 17 concepts, modifies 43 label names and 64 definitions, adds 10 notes (mostly to retired concepts), makes 28 hierarchy moves and modifies 7 wikidata mappings.
Rory McIlroy's Masters win gives him, at last, his seat at the table

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Brendan Quinn

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Four miles west of Augusta National Golf Club, in the Forest Hills section of town, where colonial revivals mix with brick Tudors, dusk settled in over a garden party Wednesday. It was the night before the 2025 Masters Tournament, and Nick Faldo and Ben Crenshaw sat on a back porch for a soiree typical for this time of year around here. Small, exclusive, deep-pocketed. A fireside chat between the two Masters winners was tabbed as the highlight of the evening.
The Masters showdown golf cannot wait for

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Brendan Quinn

AUGUSTA, Ga. - It's unclear what anyone has done to deserve this. Of all endings? This? This colossal collision of plotlines and personalities, of wild opposites and weird outcomes? The gods already smiled upon these parts of central Georgia this week, offering the kind of weather that not even Augusta National members could buy, but now comes a Sunday that can only be described as too good to be true.