1. METSRights and related topics Sally H. McCallum Library of Congress smcc@loc.gov

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

3. What  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

4. How much  How want to express?  Textual  Actionable  What is the scope?

5. METSRights  Copyright Information  Rights category - vocabulary: contractual, copyrighted, licensed, public domain, other  Other category type - explanation when rightscategory=other  - textual statement  - name, address, phone, email, etc.

6. METSRights  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  - textual

7. MARC 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)

8. LC 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

9. LC 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

10. 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