diff --git a/R/createMassBank.R b/R/createMassBank.R
index a1c166a..4de26cb 100755
--- a/R/createMassBank.R
+++ b/R/createMassBank.R
@@ -130,13 +130,14 @@ resetInfolists <- function(mb)
 							CH.LINK.HMDB = character(0), CH.LINK.KEGG = character(0), CH.LINK.LIPIDMAPS = character(0), 
 							CH.LINK.PUBCHEM = character(0), CH.LINK.INCHIKEY = character(0), 
 							CH.LINK.CHEMSPIDER = integer(0), CH.LINK.COMPTOX = character(0), 
-							AUTHORS = character(0)
+							AUTHORS = character(0), COPYRIGHT = character(0)
 							), .Names = c("X", "id", "dbcas", 
 							"dbname", "dataused", "COMMENT.CONFIDENCE", "COMMENT.ID", 
               "CH.NAME1", "CH.NAME2", "CH.NAME3", "CH.NAME4", "CH.NAME5", "CH.COMPOUND_CLASS", "CH.FORMULA", 
 							"CH.EXACT_MASS", "CH.SMILES", "CH.IUPAC", "CH.LINK.CAS", "CH.LINK.CHEBI", 
 							"CH.LINK.HMDB", "CH.LINK.KEGG", "CH.LINK.LIPIDMAPS", "CH.LINK.PUBCHEM",
-							"CH.LINK.INCHIKEY", "CH.LINK.CHEMSPIDER", "CH.LINK.COMPTOX", "AUTHORS"), row.names = integer(0), class = "data.frame")
+							"CH.LINK.INCHIKEY", "CH.LINK.CHEMSPIDER", "CH.LINK.COMPTOX", 
+							"AUTHORS", "COPYRIGHT"), row.names = integer(0), class = "data.frame")
 	if(getOption("RMassBank")$include_sp_tags)
 	{
 	  mb@mbdata_archive["SP.SAMPLE"] <- character(0)
@@ -1270,6 +1271,9 @@ readMbdata <- function(row)
   
   if(!is.na(row[["AUTHORS"]]))
     mbdata[["AUTHORS"]] = row[["AUTHORS"]]
+
+  if(!is.na(row[["COPYRIGHT"]]))
+    mbdata[["COPYRIGHT"]] = row[["COPYRIGHT"]]