The Inter American Press Association and six organizations representing news media from Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Brazil, and Argentina join an international alliance championing standards for traceability, attribution, and licensing of content used by AI systems
Miami (October 13, 2026) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the Association of Argentine Journalistic Entities (ADEPA), Alianza de Medios MX, the Colombian Association of Information Media (AMI), the Brazilian National Association of Newspapers (ANJ), the Chilean National Press Association (ANP) and the Peruvian Press Council (CPP) announce that they are jointly joining the SPUR Coalition (Standards for Publisher Usage Rights). SPUR is an international alliance of media organizations and industry bodies that develop standards and tools enabling publishers to control, measure and manage the use of their content by artificial intelligence systems.
Their membership makes these entities a pioneering group in the region and, for the first time, brings the perspective of media in the Americas, in a coordinated way, to an initiative of global reach. It comes at a time when AI is transforming the production, distribution and consumption of information, and raising new challenges for intellectual property and the economic sustainability of journalism.
What is SPUR?
SPUR was originally launched by the BBC, the Financial Times, Guardian Media Group, Sky News and Telegraph Media Group, and was later joined by Mediahuis and The Associated Press as founding members. Over time it has expanded to include organizations and media outlets from a range of markets, among them WAN-IFRA, FIPP, News/Media Alliance, the Association of Online Publishers, the Independent Media Association, the Professional Publishers Association and Newsworks.
One of its main aims is to develop technical standards and frameworks that make it possible to know when and how AI systems use journalistic content, to facilitate mechanisms for attribution, control and, ultimately, licensing. In June, the coalition published its Content Telemetry Standard, designed to give publishers information on such use and to establish a common language for measuring and reporting it.
Its workstreams also include identifying the tools needed to protect intellectual property, reducing the technical barriers to licensing, and developing channels that allow journalistic content to be used in a transparent, traceable and rights-based way. SPUR also maintains a dialogue with technology companies and other players in the ecosystem to help shape standards that can be applied internationally.
A regional voice in the global conversation
The organizations agree that the debate over how journalistic content is used in the training and operation of AI models will be decisive for the future of the sector, and that media in the Americas, of differing scales and circumstances, must be represented where those rules are being defined.
By joining, the entities aim to:
A benefit for media across the region
The organizations represent media of different sizes and from different territories, from large groups to regional and local outlets. Participation in SPUR will allow the benefits of this international collaboration to reach all their members, so that they have better tools to protect the value of what they produce.
The initiative adds to the agenda that each entity is pursuing artificial intelligence, intellectual property, press freedom and media sustainability, and to their work to promote fairer conditions in the relationship between journalism and the major technology platforms.
Through this joint membership, the organizations are adding the voice of journalism in the Americas to a coalition that seeks to build the rules, standards and infrastructure for a more transparent and sustainable relationship between the producers of journalism and artificial intelligence platforms.
The IAPA is a non-profit organization dedicated to defending and promoting freedom of the press and expression in the Americas. It comprises more than 1,300 publications from the western hemisphere and is based in Miami, Florida, United States.
