Copyright field info does not displays in Mac OS X platform of any image by using Finder 10.6.3

As far as I'm aware the Finder does not recognise or display IPTC copyright information. You'd need to use a third-party application which exposes the image's IPTC data. Adobe Photoshop (full version) and Graphic Converter both do this to my knowledge, there are probably others too.

OS X uses its own schema for meta-data, different than exif meta-data. As HD points out, PhotoShop and Graphic Converter may show this data. Have a look at Phil Harvey's exiftool- http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Hi Ram,

I think you'll just have to test it out, I don't have a list. You should be aware that this is a user-to-user forum, not an Apple help centre. Here are some of the elements it does display on my machine:

In my brief experiment I found it showed title, keywords, Instructions, city, state, country but not location, or copyright, or credits. I think you'll have to test an image with some random text in every field of the IPTC caption to see what is displayed and what doesn't.

Hi Ram

The copyright field is available to the OS, but not to the Finder.

Try this AppleScript:

set the_file to (choose file of type "Jpg" with prompt "Choose a JPG file")

if the result is not 0 then

set file_path to quoted form of (POSIX path of the_file)

set the_copyright to (do shell script ("sips --getProperty copyright " & file_path))

display dialogthe_copyright

end if

All the best

HD (that's my user name, Bath is where I live 😀)