Wouldn't it be great to have copyright information as part of an item's metadata?

Karen Coyle makes the sensible proposal that we actually enter copyright information (e.g. copyright notice information) into the metadata when we digitize stuff from our library collections. 

This would help us all (especially users) when we see an image and then try to figure out the copyright status of the original item. Read more about her proposal in Descriptive metadata for copyright status in First Monday October 2005