[cc-metadata] metadata in JPEG images

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Jul 25 11:34:38 EDT 2005


Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> I would like  to know something about metadata and images (i mean JPEG
> mainly ). As far as I see the recommended procedure is to include a
> visible text and a XML-metadata to a page. But what about JPEG. JPEG
> does not have a license field (only a comment)?

There are many metadata formats (EXIF, IPTC, XMP; see 
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ for lots of info) that (I 
assume) extend JPEG's comment mechanism and include a copyright field.

We have a recommendation for XMP at 
http://creativecommons.org/technology/xmp

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