Items copied from CD as read only I have a CD that when the items are copied to the desktop (OS 10.6) the items are marked as read only. The CD is UDF formatted and I have read the following on another site: 


  The Mac simply doesn't understand the UDF format which is widely used
  by many Windows and Linux computers, along with various consumer DVD
  burners, video cameras and other devices. OS X gets confused when
  reading files, thinking they have read-only privileges or locked files
  or different owners, depending on what software was used to write the
  disc. Other systems don't suffer from this problem because they fully
  implement the 13-year-old UDF standard, but OS X doesn't.


Is there any way to get copied items to inherit permission of the folder that they are being copied to? I don't want to have to modify permissions everytime files are copied.
One way would be to copy the files from the command line using rsync: It supports a flag --chmod, so you can say, e.g.,

rsync -a --chmod=u+w /Volumes/name-of-the-CD/ /wherever/


to turn on writable flag for the user (you). Beware, though, that rsync takes a while getting used to, especially when recursively copying directories. Whether or not you end the name of the source directory with a slash actually makes a difference …