Time to Update Your Copyright Notice

Image by Gerd Altmann/geralt from Pixabay

 

It's officially 2025, which means it's time to revise your copyright information to reflect the new year.

Lightroom Classic, Desktop, Mobile

Victoria Bampton (aka the Lightroom Queen) has an article on how to do this for Adobe Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Desktop (cloud-based) and Lightroom Mobile. Read her post for the details.

Adobe Bridge/Photoshop

If you use Adobe Bridge (part of Photoshop) to organize your pictures, you can update your copyright information by following these steps.

1. Open Bridge and click the Tools menu.
2. Select Edit Metadata Template.
   
3. Choose your copyright template from the list. 

If you have not saved your copyright info as a template, choose Create Metadata Template instead and give your template a name.

In the window that opens, expand the triangle next to IPTC Core. Then scroll to the bottom of the section for the copyright fields.

Expand the IPTC Core section

1. Uncheck any boxes that are NOT copyright related.
   
2. Check the boxes for Copyright Notice, Copyright Status, and Rights Usage Terms (optional). 
3. Update the year in the Copyright Notice box.
   The correct format is the copyright symbol, the year, and your name.
   
4. Be sure Status is Copyrighted (not Unknown).
5. Enter any Rights Usage Terms (optional).
   
6. Click the Save button.
7. Confirm that you want to Replace the template with the new information. 

Update the year to 2025 in the Copyright Notice box

Copyright Symbol Tip

To add the copyright symbol on a Mac, type Option + G.
To add the copyright symbol on Windows, use the numeric keypad and type Alt + 0169.
Or you can write the word "copyright" at the beginning.

Now you are ready for all the new images you'll create in 2025.

[Originally posted January 2, 2024. Updated January 3, 2025.]