Metadata: Rights

"The Picture Licensing Universal System—a cooperative, multi-industry initiative — provides a system that clearly defines and categorizes image usage around the world, from granting and acquiring licenses to tracking and managing them well into the future."

Part of the MPEG-21 framework for multimedia applications, "ISO/IEC 21000-4:2006 specifies how to include Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP) information and protected parts in a Digital Item. It provides a simple mechanism to include protected parts in the DID (ISO/IEC 21000-2) description of a digital item, and provides mechanisms for describing the governance over, and the tools used for the protected content."

"RightsML provides a data model for marking up rights expressions about content of all relevant media types in a machine readable way. RightsML builds on ODRL, the framework for digital rights hosted by the W3C, by extending it to meet the specific needs of the media industry."

"The ODRL permissions and obligations expression language provides a flexible and interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for describing statements about digital content usage. The ODRL Information Model describes the underlying concepts, entities, and relationships that form the foundational basis for the semantics of the ODRL statements."

"The ODRL permissions and obligations expression language provides a flexible and interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for describing statements about digital content usage. The ODRL Vocabulary and Expression describes the terms used in such statements and how to encode them."

"This document includes a set of use cases and requirements, compiled by the Permissions & Obligations Expression (POE) working group, that motivate the expression of statements about digital content usage. All use cases provide realistic examples describing how people and organisations may (or want to be able to) specify statements about digital content usage."