4.4.15: Rights

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Rights

The rights property represents the relationship between a resource and information about rights held in and over this resource. This includes information like access rights, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), copyrights, references to legal documents describing how to use a resource, etc. To specify rights more precicely use accessRights or license.

AccessRights

This property represents the relationship between a resource and information about who can access a resource or an indication of its security status. Access rights provides information about restrictions to view, search or use a resource based on attributes of the resource itself or the category of user.

License

This property represents the relationship between a resource and a legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource (e.g. an otherwise free resource may not be used for reproduction within commercial applications). Examples of such licenses you will find at http://creativecommons.org/.

Guidelines for the creation of rights content

A rights statement may be a text,

title	Data from my last evaluation
accessRights
	My colleagues only

as linked data

or a URI referencing to formal rights information,

title	You and me
rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

as linked data

or a combination of both.

title	GeoNetwork - Geographic Metadata Catalog
license	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
	GNU General Public License

as linked data

If there are no formal rights statements to use you may also create your own rights statement.

title	Diaries of Juanita Ramirez
rights	accessConditions

identifier	accessConditions
title	Access to my stuff
description	Resources under this right can only be read, searched and used by members of the myProject

as linked data