1 small step for Google, 1 giant step for shutterbugs. Starting today, Google says it has added Creator & Credit metadata whenever present to images on Google Images. To see this information on Google Images, you can click on the “Image Credits” link to view the metadata fields. Over the coming weeks, Google will also add Copyright Notice metadata.
Google said:
As part of a collaboration between Google, photo industry consortium CEPIC, and IPTC, the global technical standards body for the news media, you can now access rights-related image metadata in Google Images.
For more on how to best implement IPTC metadata, refer to the IPTC Guidelines.
See how it will look: