Greyed out Metadata Copyright?

[Kirk Gittings]

I am having an issue with greyed out copyright data in the append metadata on image files in Bridge CS3 beta that I cannot change. I must be missing something, but I can't for the life of me figure out what.

[Alan Davenport]

DRM comes to photography?

[Kirk Gittings]

I'm not sure what DMR is, but the copyright area is blank, in the menu where you append it the tag is greyed out. I need to send some work out with my copyright.

[tim atherton]

your not using Vista are you? That's been screwing up metadata

(and I assume you have done something as simple as write protect the files or such...)

[Walter Calahan]

Digital Resource Management - DRM

or

Digital Asset Management - DAM

Kirk, haven't heard about grayed out Meta-data before. Have you poked around Bridge's preferences under Meta-data to see if all the entry points that you want to display are turned on? I'm scratching my head on this one.

[tim atherton]

Digital Resource Management - DRM

or

Digital Asset Management - DAM

Kirk, haven't heard about grayed out Meta-data before. Have you poked around Bridge's preferences under Meta-data to see if all the entry points that you want to display are turned on? I'm scratching my head on this one.

DRM - Digital Rights Management

[Walter Calahan]

Tim

Digital Resource Management - DRM

I'm showing my computer side that goes beyond photography. There's more to digital than rights. Grin.

Puzzled we haven't heard from anyone else whose seen grayed out meta-data.

Kirk, I tried many different way to gray out the meta-data last night, but couldn't repeat your problem. Sorry I'm no help.

[tim atherton]

Tim

Digital Resource Management - DRM

I'm showing my computer side that goes beyond photography. There's more to digital than rights. Grin.

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DAM - Digital Asset Management is the one term (worked in it and developed museum systems for it for a few years)

DRM - Digital Rights Management is FAR beyond photography - one of the more important commercial issues right now - it's at the heart of the issues with the whole music download industry, but more importantly the real viability of movie downloads. Hollywood wouldn't step down this road until DRM was a real possibility. And it's now also being applied to all sorts of online but proprietary information. Built in DRM is one of the big things with Vista for example.

(Do a google search for DRM - I couldn't even get "digital resources management" to show up - only went as far as page 8. Though note some like to call DRM Digital Restrictions Management...)

[Marko]

I am having an issue with greyed out copyright data in the append metadata on image files in Bridge CS3 beta that I cannot change. I must be missing something, but I can't for the life of me figure out what.

Back on track: Yes, it is grayed out in mine too, and not just copyright or IPTC, but everything.

It seems that Adobe changed the way to modify the Metadata alltogether. While in Birdge, try going to Tools (menu) and then pick Create Metadata Template.... This lets you fill in all the metadata you want and save it as a "template", which you then need to apply by using Tools - Append Metadata -> (or Replace Metadata ->).

It seems odd at first, but then you only need to create a particular template once and then apply it as many times you want. With something as drudgingly repetitive as Copyright notice and/or Author's name, it is actually a welcome improvement.

I hope this helps.

[Walter Calahan]

Oh well Tim, perhaps it's a term used in my little circle. Just because somethings not on Goggle doesn't mean it doesn't exist somewhere in the universe.

I never said DRM can't mean Digital Rights Management. I was simply giving a meaning that I use, which is far more helpful than simply posting the letters assuming eveyone understands. Grin.