Ryan, I want to have basic information like Creative Common Attribution under Publishing-> Content Rights, filled in automatically whenever creating a new article.

I have looked three times through all the Configuration options in either Editor Global Configuration or Editor Profiles, and have not seen a specific entry box for this.

Can you describe to me how to accomplish this???

Silly me, yes, that is the Joomla article manager isn't it. Maybe you should make a drop-in replacement for the Joomla article manage 😉 just kidding.

I will look to see if there is somewhere I can add default content. May have to override a Joomla core file and add that default to that text box.

As always Ryan, your the best. Wish JCE was the default content editor for all CMS's.