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HTML
<img src="whatever.jpg" />
<span>Copyright Stackoverflow</span>
<img src="whatever.jpg" />
<span>Copyright Stackoverflow</span>
JavaScript
$("img").each(function(innerIndex) {
var span = $(this).next('span');
var $contents = span.text();
span.remove();
$(this).after('<figcaption>'+$contents+'</figcaption>')
});