I thought that you might have something here, so I checked my preferences and created another metadata template. Yes, it created an XMP sidecar file, but I located this and binned it before opening the file to see whether the copyright symbol was preserved and the File Info data - they seemed durable to me, suggesting the info was embedded within the metadata header of the file as well as the sidecar.
I am only testing locally here, so if that is flawed perhaps, Russell Williams could go over this in greater depth.
Rod:
Easy to test. Just take that TIF or Jpeg file and "catalog" it in your choice of image database. If nothing shows up in the catalog in the standard IPTC fields, then the data is not "within" the field in the image (at least the IPTC field). My guess is that it's still accessing it from the sidecar.
My understanding is once the image is "saved" then this will be inserted, as well as staying along side the image.
Another thing ...is that the "copyright status" is only readable within photoshop as
it's not a part of the "official" IPTC standard. Thus most imagedatabases
won't see, and or display this field in a database.
You could well be correct here, I honestly don't know.
It is in most image databases that subscribe to the Information Interchange Model version 4 of the IPTC, which is what most of these image databases (and IPTC editors like Image Info Toolkit, etc) are using.
David
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