If your files come with strings attached - photographer contracts, stock licenses, model releases - you've probably been tracking them in a spreadsheet. Or in someone's head. Copyrights moves that information onto the assets themselves, so the rules travel with the file instead of living somewhere your team has to remember to check.
Copyrights is set up per workspace and starts switched off. Go to Settings → Copyrights and turn on Enable copyright management for this workspace.
Once it's on, copyright fields appear on your assets, expiry warnings start showing, and your download rules apply. Turning it back off hides all of it again without losing what you've entered.
Three fields are ready the moment you enable it:
You can edit the options on Source and Allowed Channels, and add fields of your own with + Add field. Each new field is one of four types: single select, multi-select, free text, or date. Licensor, credit line, and allowed territories are common additions.
Under Expiration policy you decide how far ahead to warn, and what happens at each stage:
Out of the box, expired assets are blocked and expiring-soon assets warn first. Whatever you choose here, expired and expiring assets are always marked visually.
You can fill in copyright fields in three places: