METSRights and related topicsMETSRights and related topics

Sally H. McCallum

Library of Congress

smcc@loc.gov

METSRights in contextMETSRights in context

Rights Expression Language CreativeCommons METSRights (2001) Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL)(2000) MPEG-21, Pt.5 (based on XrML)

WhatWhat

What want to express? Copyright information

• Rights holders• © statement

Contracts/license information• More or fewer permissions than copyright allows

Access and use• Specific allowances of who can do what

How muchHow much

How want to express? Textual Actionable

What is the scope?

METSRightsMETSRights Copyright Information

Rights category - vocabulary: contractual, copyrighted, licensed, public domain, other

Other category type - explanation when rightscategory=other

<RightsDeclaration> - textual statement <RightsHolder> - name, address, phone, email, etc.

METSRightsMETSRights Context (repeatable)

User group – vocabulary: academic user, general public, repository mgr., managed gp, institutional affiliate, other

User name – if user a person or named constituency User type – vocabulary: individual, group, both,

undefined Permissions – vocabulary of types: find, display, copy,

duplicate, modify, delete, print, other (each true or false) Constraints – vocabulary of types: quality, format, unit,

watermark, payment, count, attrition, re-use, time, transferpermissions, other

<ConstraintDescription> - textual

MARC 21MARC 21 Copyright/legal Deposit field (017)

Copyright number, assigning agency, date

Restrictions on access note (506) Text statement, authorized users, authorization source,

URI link

Terms governing use and reproduction (540) Text statement, authorized users, authorization source,

URI link

Discussion Paper Statement, creator, © holder, status (©, public domain,

unknown), dates (©, renewal, creation, creator death)

LC Practice with digital materialLC Practice with digital material General disclaimers

“educational and research purposes” “responsibility of user to obtain permissions for other

uses beyond fair use” “Generally speaking, works created by US Government

employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the US.”

LC actions LC tries to obtain permissions and only presents what

allowed by copyright holders Requests that users inform LC know if user knows more

about the copyright status

LC practiceLC practice 4 basic areas

American Memory conversion projects LC presents performance conversion projects Web archiving Subscriptions to electronic

Privacy and publicity Protection for the objects of a work No fair use; no federal laws; generally state laws Users must obtain permissions

Thanks!Thanks! Useful URLs

For comparison of Rights and Expression Languages:

• http://www.loc.gov/standards/relreport.pdfURL

For METSRights:• http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/news080503.html• http://cosimo.stanford.edu/sdr/metsrights.xsd