Google, as part of an ongoing collaboration with photo industry consortium CEPIC, and IPTC, the global technical standards body for the news media, today announced that now users can access rights-related image metadata in Google Images which was difficult to prior to the announcement.
This information is often part of image metadata and is key to protecting image copyright and licensing information. Google said that starting today, it has added ‘Creator and Credit’ metadata to images on Google Images. To see this information on Google Images, users can click on the “Image Credits” link to view the metadata fields. In the coming weeks, Google will also add Copyright Notice metadata.
In partnership with CEPIC and IPTC, Google hopes to create better usage guidance for photographers, photo agencies and publishers by including copyright and attribution information in image metadata.
In a blog post, Google said:
As part of a collaboration between Google, photo industry consortium CEPIC, and IPTC, the global technical standards body for the news media, you can now access rights-related image metadata in Google Images. It’s traditionally been difficult to know the creator of images on the web, as well as who might own the rights. This information is often part of image metadata, and is key to protecting image copyright and licensing information.