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July 12, 2024
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P: Add Metadata option for IPTC Field "Data Mining"

  • July 12, 2024
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Hello Adobe Team!

I´m the Chairman of FREELENS, a professional association for photographers in Germany with over 2000 members. We are currently dealing with the question of how we can protect our photos from being used as training material for AI image generators without authorisation. In Europe, this requires a machine-readable objection.
The IPTC organisation has created a standard for this in the metadata:
https://iptc.org/news/exclude-images-from-generative-ai-iptc-photo-metadata-standard-2023-1/
There is therefore a "Data Mining" field in the metadata according to the IPTC standard with which you can object to data mining.
However, this field cannot be filled out in either Lightroom or Photoshop; I have already been in contact with the support team about this.
I would ask you to set this up as quickly as possible, as it is very important for us to be able to object in a legally secure manner.
It would also be very helpful if we could talk about these issues and you could give me the names of specific contacts.

2 replies

Known Participant
February 18, 2026

That field was added to the IPTC user guide 2 years ago, to the IPTC and PLUS standards 2.5 years ago. Adobe released three major Lr/LrC updates since this standard got it’s first revision.

It would be nice, if Adobe would keep up with industry standards.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 12, 2024

I've moved this from Bugs (which it is not) to Ideas and passed it along to Lightroom product management for review. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org