Protect Copyright EXIF data

  • Resolved danw1141

    (@danw1141)


    6 years, 7 months ago

    I am not sure if this is a feature yet, but if not I think this is quite important.

    I have the setting enabled that strips all meta data. I think it’s good practice to do that and totally fine, however the author / copyright meta data field should not be touched under any circumstances as this is legal territory in many countries and even harmful when you are the creator of an image.

    How can this be done?

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  • Plugin Author Shane Bishop

    (@nosilver4u)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Preserving copyright information when the plugin strips metadata isn’t possible currently, as it gets tricky trying to preserve only certain bits of the EXIF data.
    I definitely appreciate the feedback, and have submitted it as a feature request on GitHub here: https://github.com/nosilver4u/ewww-image-optimizer/issues/139

    Thread Starter danw1141

    (@danw1141)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you for your response and your effort! I do understand that my followup question is not related to the plugin, but maybe you know an easy solution to my request that could help me and other users seeing this thread:

    I am looking for a bash command, that would add the same exif information to all files in a directory. In mycase, that would solve the problem. Something like:

    writeexif “copyright_author = author name” “somewhere/pictures/*.jpg”

    I am having full access on debian 10 server.

    Plugin Author Shane Bishop

    (@nosilver4u)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    We use this tool for working with the ICC profiles, it works pretty well: https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

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