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Definition

Indication of copyright status and usage rights of the metadata record

Other possible database element names

Legal status metadata

Terms of use metadata set

Metadata licence

Text/URI

URI + optionally text (controlled vocabulary)

Repeatable

No

Obligation level

Mandatory

Notes

This data element specifies a valid rights notice or licence for the metadata record. This indicates the extent to which the object information may be used. If you are planning to deliver data to the German Digital Library, you must select a licence or rights statement from Rechteangaben in der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek [eng.: Rights statements in the German Digital Library].

If the object description text is subject to intellectual property rights, the corresponding legal status should be indicated in a separate data field (in LIDO: <lido:objectDescriptionRights>, from LIDO v.1.1) (see also Object description).

Lists

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

Rightsstatements.org

Creative Commons Licenses

Examples

URI	Preferred term
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/	CC0 1.0 Universal
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 - Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 4.0 International

Expression in LIDO v1.0

<lido:recordRights>
   <lido:rightsType>
       <lido:conceptID lido:type="http://terminology.lido-schema.org/lido00099">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</lido:conceptID>
       <lido:term xml:lang="de">CC0 1.0 Universell</lido:term>
       <lido:term xml:lang="en">CC0 1.0 Universal</lido:term>
   </lido:rightsType>
</lido:recordRights>

Expression in LIDO v1.1

<!-- Without naming of rights holder -->
<lido:recordRights>
	<lido:rightsType>
		<skos:Concept rdf:about="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">
			<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="de">CC0 1.0 Universell</skos:prefLabel>
			<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">CC0 1.0 Universal</skos:prefLabel>
		</skos:Concept>
	</lido:rightsType>
</lido:recordRights>
   
   
<!-- With naming rights holder -->
<lido:recordRights>
	<lido:rightsType>
		<skos:Concept rdf:about="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">
			<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="de">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International</skos:prefLabel>
			<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International</skos:prefLabel>
		</skos:Concept>
	</lido:rightsType>
	<lido:rightsHolder>
		<lido:legalBodyID lido:type="http://terminology.lido-schema.org/lido00099" lido:source="ISIL (ISO 15511)">https://ld.zdb-services.de/resource/organisations/DE-MUS-031316</lido:legalBodyID>
		<lido:legalBodyName>
			<lido:appellationValue xml:lang="de">Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz</lido:appellationValue>
		    <lido:appellationValue xml:lang="en">Silesian Museum in Görlitz</lido:appellationValue>
        </lido:legalBodyName>
	</lido:rightsHolder>
</lido:recordRights>

Comparison with relevant standards and database models

Standard	Element name	Text/URI	Repeatable	Obligation level	Comment
German Digital Library: Metadata requirements for data provision	Rechtsstatus der Metadaten [eng.: Rights status of metadata]	URI	No	Mandatory	When contributing data to the German Digital Library, it is expected that the so-called core metadata (object information about the object) is not protected by copyright (CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication). Object description texts with a different legal status will be indicated in the <objectDescriptionRights> element in the DDB LIDO application profile.
German Digital Library LIDO application profile (DDB-LIDO)	<recordRights> / <rightsType> / <conceptID>	URI	No	Mandatory
CCC-LIDO Application profile	Legal status metadata <recordRights> / <rightsType> / <conceptID>	URI	No	Mandatory
DFG Basic Data Record	Metadata Record Terms of Use	URI	Not specified	Mandatory
DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation: LIDO core metadata	Dataset: <recordRights>	Text and/or URI	Yes	Mandatory if available
Europeana Data Model (EDM)	(No match)	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not mandatory	For datasets contributed to Europeana, the legal status of the metadata is expected to be in the public domain (Public Domain Mark or CC0 1.0 Universal)
EODEM application profile	(No match)	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not mandatory
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (2024)	(No match)	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
CDWA Lite (2006)	(No match)	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Spectrum 5.1	Rights out reference number Rights out type	Text (controlled vocabulary) and URI	No	Not specified	The obligation level is determined by the institution.
digiCULT	Rechtsstatus der Metadaten [eng.: Rights status of metadata]	Text und URI	No	Mandatory	The licence is preset by default for every museum and is CC0 1.0 Universal in digiCULT .
museum-digital	Metadata rights (status)	Text (controlled vocabulary) and URI	No	Mandatory	The licence is preset by default for every museum and is CC BY-NC-SA in museum-digital, if no other license is selected.

ID data element

mds0024