Richard

no, not any metadata can be "locked" - yet.

Read our Photo Metadata White Paper (http://www.iptc.org/goto?phmdwp2007)
and you will find this issue is listed under "Open Issue" and the IPTC
committed itself to work on a solution for that with the software vendors -
as this can not be done by a standard alone.

Michael


On 22 Aug 2007 at 8:23 calyxpixuk wrote:

> Hi,
> Can anything be done to lock the copyright data to stop it being
> replaced.
>
> Recently a rival picture agency received one of my images from a
> source it has a deal with, and proceded to change all the information
> in the 'file info' so that any reference to me was deleted.
>
> I don't mind the details of the caption being changed but the origin
> needs to be lockable. Is this possible?
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>


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