copyright - artist - etc.

[think99]

Hi,

I am workig with Win XP prof. and have got an EOS-20D (Canon).
Now I'm trying to add some tags like copyright, artist, author to my pictures and found a command like

  exiftool "-copyright<(c) Thilo Schwenk ..." ".\SubFolder\foo.jpg" -overwrite original

in several places where I looked for help. Unfortunately, this always ends in

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  0 image files updated
  1 image files unchanged

even with different positions of the double quotes, single quotes, positions of parameters ...
This does not only happen with manipulated images (gimp, picasa, corel) but also with the original jpgs.

What have I missed?
Looking forward for your help.
Thanks a lot.

Thilo
(obviously new to ExifTool)

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Thilo,

Try "-copyright=(c) Thilo Schwenk ...".  The = is used to assign the value of a tag, while < is for copying the value of other tags.

Also, it should be -overwrite_original, not -overwrite original.

- Phil

[think99]

Hi Phil,

thanks for your quick response. I am ashamed ...

Thilo
(changing username from think to thick)

[think99]

Hi,

just for a bit time-saving, can I do several changes in one command?

Currently I am using a batch that runs through all images several times for adding copyright, adding owner and copying ( ) the file-name into caption-abstract.

Thanks a lot.

Thilo

[Phil Harvey]

Absolutely.  You can assign, copy, and/or delete as many tags as you want from as many files as you want with a single command.

- Phil