Usage rights of media file (mandatory)

Definition

Indication of copyright status and usage rights of the digital representation

Other possible database element names

Legal status of media file

Terms of use media file

Licence

Rights information media file

Legal status of the image

Rights table

Text/URI

URI + optionally text (controlled vocabulary)

Repeatable

No, only one rights statement per media file

Obligation level

Mandatory

Recording notes

This data element specifies a valid rights notice or licence for the media file. This indicates the extent to which the media file may be used.

If you are planning to deliver data to the German Digital Library, you have to select a licence or rights statement from Rechteangaben in der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek [eng.: Rights statements in the German Digital Library].

The rights to the cultural heritage object (e.g. a painting) are included in the media file that digitally represents the object. If the cultural heritage object is (still) protected by copyright, the author and the holder of the rights of use of the cultural heritage object must always be stated. This is done in a separate data element (in LIDO: <lido:rightsWorkSet> / <lido:rightsHolder>). If the cultural heritage object is in the public domain and is not a three-dimensional object (for such objects, reproduction may involve a threshold of originality), no new rights will normally arise in the digital representation or media file.

Further information can be found in the publication In Bewegung. Die Rechtsfibel für Digitalisierungsprojekte in Kulturerbe-Einrichtungen [eng.: In motion. The legal primer for digitisation projects in cultural heritage institutions]. In addition, the NFDI4Culture Legal Helpdesk can be contacted with legal questions relating to the publication of digitised cultural material. The legal department of the German Digital Library is available to answer legal questions related to the delivery of data to the German Digital Library.

CARE: In the case of collection items from colonial contexts, the primary cultural sovereignty lies with the communities of origin. The „Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels“ or „Biocultural (BC) Labels“ supplement Creative Commons Licenses and provide information about procedural arrangements for accessing this material and/or about uses that have been deemed generally acceptable. Labels are applied by cultural and knowledge institutions in partnership with communities (see expression in LIDO).

Lists

Rechteangaben in der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek [eng.: Rights statements in the German Digital Library]

Rights statements of rightsstatements.org

Creative Commons licenses list

Examples

Expression in LIDO v1.0

<lido:resourceWrap>
     <lido:resourceSet>
          <lido:rightsResource>
		       <lido:rightsType>
				    <lido:conceptID lido:type="http://terminology.lido-schema.org/lido00099">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/</lido:conceptID>
					<lido:term>Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal</lido:term>
			   </lido:rightsType>
          </lido:rightsResource>
     </lido:resourceSet>
</lido:resourceWrap>

CARE: 

<lido:resourceWrap>
     <lido:resourceSet>
          <lido:rightsResource>
		       <lido:rightsType>
				    <lido:conceptID lido:type="http://terminology.lido-schema.org/lido00099" lido:source="Local Contexts">https://localcontexts.org/label/tk-multiple-communities/</lido:conceptID>
					<lido:term>TK Multiple Communities (TK MC)</lido:term>
			   </lido:rightsType>
 			   <lido:creditLine>
                Responsibility and ownership over this material is spread across several distinct communities. Use will be dependent upon discussion and negotiation with the multiple communities named herein [name N.N. and community name N.N.]. Decisions about use will need to be decided collectively. As an external user of this material you are asked to recognize and respect cultural protocols in relation to the use of this material and clear your intended use with the relevant communities.
              </lido:creditLine>
          </lido:rightsResource>
     </lido:resourceSet>
</lido:resourceWrap>

Expression in LIDO v1.1

<lido:resourceWrap>
     <lido:resourceSet>
          <lido:rightsResource>
		       <lido:rightsType>    
					<skos:Concept rdf:about="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/">
						<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal</skos:prefLabel>
					</skos:Concept>
			   </lido:rightsType>
          </lido:rightsResource>
     </lido:resourceSet>
</lido:resourceWrap>

Comparison with relevant standards and database models

ID data element

mds0015