Add Copyright to a Photo

Drop a JPEG photo onto this page, enter your name (a copyright notice is built for you automatically), and click Apply and download. Your name is written into the EXIF Artist and Copyright fields in your browser — the image is not recompressed and nothing is uploaded.

In the standard EXIF Artist and Copyright metadata fields that professional software reads — Lightroom, Photoshop, photo agencies, and stock sites all display them. It travels invisibly with the file; the picture itself is unchanged.

They serve different purposes. A watermark is visible but changes the image; EXIF copyright is invisible and keeps the photo clean, and it is what professional workflows check. Many photographers use both: EXIF for attribution and a watermark for public posting.

You own the copyright the moment you take a photo, with or without metadata. Embedding your name asserts authorship, helps honest users credit and contact you, and in some jurisdictions removing it can itself violate copyright-management-information laws. It is attribution and evidence of claim, not registration.

Yes — anyone with a metadata remover can strip it, and most social networks remove metadata automatically on upload. That is why EXIF copyright matters most for files you deliver directly: to clients, agencies, and stock platforms.

The EXIF Copyright field is defined as ASCII text, and the © symbol is not ASCII — some software displays it as a corrupted character. The (c) form is universally readable, and the word Copyright itself carries the meaning.

No. The fields are written entirely in your browser, on your own device. The photo is never sent to a server, stored, or shared.

No. Only the metadata block is rewritten — the image pixels are copied through untouched, with no recompression. All other metadata, including camera details, dates, and GPS, is preserved.

This page handles one photo at a time. To write your name into hundreds of photos in one go on iPhone and iPad, the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro app bulk-edits metadata directly in your photo library.

Yes, completely free, no account, no upload. For bulk metadata editing on iPhone and iPad, the EXIF Viewer by Fluntro app is a one-time purchase.