Lightroom 6.1 TIFF metadata issue

I work in Adobe Lightroom to process photos and move them to MediaBin (4.6) to catalog and metatag; this is what my company uses for its photo library. Last week Adobe creative cloud prompted me to upgrade Lightroom; I was using 5.7, and the newest version is 6.1. In doing so, the captions and copyright information that I write in Lightroom are no longer showing up when they come in to MediaBin.
At first I thought the metadata was getting stripped following being exported from Lightroom (exported as TIFFs), but when looking at the files in photoshop, I can see all of the metadata is present. I then began a series of tests to try and figure this out.
I first moved a previously exported TIFF file from the previous version of Lightroom into MediaBin, and I could see the data that was embedded. MediaBin was working as it should.
Next, I took a file exported as a TIFF from the new Lightroom and moved it into MediaBin. I could not see the metadata, as expected. Then I downloaded it from MediaBin- as I would do to fulfill a photo request- and opened it in Photoshop. I was surprised- all the metadata was there! For some reason, MediaBin just couldn’t see it.
Finally, on a lark, I exported a file from the new Lightroom, but this time made it into a JPEG. When I moved this into MediaBin, I could see the metadata! I tried this with other file formats- DNG, PSD- and only the TIFF files show up minus their metadata.
What could cause this to happen, and only in TIFF form? I am under the impression that Metadata is just simple text information attached to a file, but I am confused that only in TIFF form do we have an issue.
Thanks!

It appears that this is caused by the same problem described here: Lightroom CC: JPEG format tripping up other programs. JPEGs and TIFFs use the same layout of metadata, and I confirmed that your TIFF has the same atypical layout as LR-produced JPEGs.
The issue is not that LR has a "bug" -- the TIFFs and JPEGs it produces strictly conform to industry standards. Rather, it's that there are many programs out there, evidently including HP MediaBin, that are buggy and don't conform to the standards and get tripped up by the atypical way that LR writes its metadata. Of course, Adobe can't change all such non-conforming programs, so LR users would very much prefer that LR go back to using a more typical layout of metadata.
Please add your vote and opinion (with details) to the bug report linked above. The more people complain, especially professional and commercial users, the more likely Adobe will prioritize a fix.

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