diff --git a/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/storage/GrpcStorageImpl.java b/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/storage/GrpcStorageImpl.java
index 120b7a269724..4f33b7c6c3f1 100644
--- a/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/storage/GrpcStorageImpl.java
+++ b/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/storage/GrpcStorageImpl.java
@@ -692,7 +692,9 @@ public CopyWriter copy(CopyRequest copyRequest) {
     // only set the destination if it is not equal to the default instance
     // otherwise we will clobber default values populated in the gcs server side for the object
     // metadata
-    if (!cleanedDst.equals(Object.getDefaultInstance())) {
+    // If the caller provided a BlobInfo target (overrideInfo), always send the destination so the
+    // server does not fall back to copying the source object's metadata.
+    if (copyRequest.overrideInfo() || !cleanedDst.equals(Object.getDefaultInstance())) {
       b.setDestination(cleanedDst);
     }
 
diff --git a/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/storage/it/ITObjectTest.java b/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/storage/it/ITObjectTest.java
index f186afd077b6..510fa890bf9e 100644
--- a/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/storage/it/ITObjectTest.java
+++ b/java-storage/google-cloud-storage/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/storage/it/ITObjectTest.java
@@ -1036,6 +1036,31 @@ public void testCopyBlobUpdateMetadata() {
     assertTrue(storage.delete(gen1.getBlobId()));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testCopyBlob_targetBlobInfo_doesNotInheritMetadata() {
+    BlobId source = BlobId.of(bucket.getName(), generator.randomObjectName() + "-source");
+    Blob remoteSourceBlob =
+        storage.create(
+            BlobInfo.newBuilder(source).setMetadata(ImmutableMap.of("k", "v")).build(),
+            BLOB_BYTE_CONTENT);
+    assertNotNull(remoteSourceBlob);
+    BlobInfo target = BlobInfo.newBuilder(bucket, generator.randomObjectName() + "-target").build();
+    CopyRequest req =
+        CopyRequest.newBuilder()
+            .setSource(source)
+            .setTarget(target, BlobTargetOption.doesNotExist())
+            .build();
+
+    CopyWriter copyWriter = storage.copy(req);
+    Blob copied = copyWriter.getResult();
+
+    assertTrue(copyWriter.isDone());
+    assertThat(copied.getMetadata()).isAnyOf(null, ImmutableMap.of());
+
+    assertTrue(remoteSourceBlob.delete());
+    assertTrue(storage.delete(copied.getBlobId()));
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testCopyBlobFail() {