rights

• Obligation:  See Application Profiles
• Occurrence:  See Application Profiles
• Conditions:  See Application Profiles
• Scheme:  See Application Profiles

Element Semantics (Definition)

Information about rights held in and over the resource.

General

• Name:  rights
• Label:  Rights Management
• Namespace:  http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
• Registration Authority:  Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
• Notes:  Typically, a Rights element will contain a rights management statement for the resource, or reference a service providing such information. Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights. If the Rights element is absent, no assumptions can be made about the status of these and other rights with respect to the resource.

Best Practices

1. The «rights» element is intended to contain a statement (i.e., a 'value string') or a reference to a statement (i.e., 'value URI') regarding ownership of intellectual property rights in the resource as well as statements regarding restrictions on the use of the resource.

Metadata Encodings Examples

• Resource Description Framework (RDF/XML)
  

  Example #1 (using 'value string'):
  
  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
  <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
      xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
  <rdf:Description>
      <dc:rights>
      These materials are protected by copyrights,
      trademarks, service marks, international 
      treaties, and/or other proprietary 
      rights and laws of the U.S. and other 
      countries. 
      </dc:rights>
  </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>
  
  Example #2 (using 'value URI'):
  
  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
  <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
      xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
  <rdf:Description>
      <dc:rights rdf:resource='http://MySite.com/Rights.html'/>
  </rdf:Description>
  </rdf:RDF>
  
  

• XML (Tags & Attributes)
  

  Example #1 (using 'value string'):
  
  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
  <record xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <dc:rights>
      These materials are protected by copyrights,
      trademarks, service marks, international 
      treaties, and/or other proprietary 
      rights and laws of the U.S. and other 
      countries.
  </dc:rights>
  </record>
  
  Example #2 (using 'value URI':
  
  <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
  <record xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'
      xmlns:dcterms='http://purl.org/dc/terms/' 
      xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>
  <dc:rights xsi:type='dcterms:URI'>
      http://MySite.com/Rights.html
  </dc:rights>
  </record>
  

• Crosswalks
  IEEE LOM: 6:Rights
  MARC: 540 ##$a (Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note)