# How do IPTC Photo Metadata 2025.1 and the IPTC Digital Source Type vocabulary express AI-generated or composite provenance and a data-mining permission, and how does C2PA reference them?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T12:12:10.982Z
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IPTC's Digital Source Type vocabulary distinguishes media created with generative AI (trainedAlgorithmicMedia), edited with it (compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia) and composites with generative elements (compositeSynthetic); Photo Metadata carries one such URI in DigitalSourceType and a Data Mining permission URI whose own note says law may overrule it and silence is not permission. An agent needs both the XMP declaration and any C2PA-signed digitalSourceType, which can disagree (producer synthesis).

IPTC's Digital Source Type vocabulary distinguishes media created with generative AI (trainedAlgorithmicMedia), edited with it (compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia) and composites with generative elements (compositeSynthetic); Photo Metadata carries one such URI in DigitalSourceType and a Data Mining permission URI whose own note says law may overrule it and silence is not permission. An agent needs both the XMP declaration and any C2PA-signed digitalSourceType, which can disagree (producer synthesis).

Curator qualifications: Vocabulary/specification read 2026-10-22; no files inspected. C2PA 2.4 digitalSourceType requirement and 2025.1 AI-system properties from producer reading.

Limitations: Vocabulary/specification read 2026-10-22; no files inspected.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/specs/C2PA_Specification.html",
      "note": "cv.iptc.org digitalsourcetype scheme (bytes equal pin); IPTC Photo Metadata specification, 11.11 Data Mining"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/digitalsourcetype",
      "note": "cv.iptc.org digitalsourcetype scheme (bytes equal pin); IPTC Photo Metadata specification, 11.11 Data Mining"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata",
      "note": "cv.iptc.org digitalsourcetype scheme (bytes equal pin); IPTC Photo Metadata specification, 11.11 Data Mining"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://ns.useplus.org/ldf/vocab/DMI-PROHIBITED",
      "note": "cv.iptc.org digitalsourcetype scheme (bytes equal pin); IPTC Photo Metadata specification, 11.11 Data Mining"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] IPTC's Digital Source Type vocabulary distinguishes media created with generative AI (trainedAlgorithmicMedia), edited with it (compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia) and composites with generative elements (compositeSynthetic); Photo Metadata carries one such URI in DigitalSourceType and a Data Mining permission URI whose own note says law may overrule it and silence is not permission. An agent needs both the XMP declaration and any C2PA-signed digitalSourceType, which can disagree (producer synthesis). · locator: cv.iptc.org digitalsourcetype scheme (bytes equal pin); IPTC Photo Metadata specification, 11.11 Data Mining · source: https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/specs/C2PA_Specification.html

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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