Linked Art API: Rights Structure

Table of Contents

Introduction
Property Definitions
Example

Introduction

The Rights construct is used to express machine comparable, but not necessarily actionable, rights assertions about intellectual works. The URI for the class of Right is conveyed in classified_as.

See the model documentation for rights.

Property Definitions

The rights data structure has the following properties.

Properties of Rights

Property Name	Datatype	Requirement	Description
`id`	string	Optional	If present, the value MUST be a URI identifying the right description, from which a representation of it can be retrieved
`type`	string	Required	The class for the right, which MUST be the value `"Right"`
`_label`	string	Recommended	A human readable label, intended for developers
`_complete`	boolean	Optional	Non-Semantic. If there is an `id` property with a URI, and there is more information about the identifier available from the representation at that URI, then `_complete` MUST be present with a value of `false` to inform the consuming application that it might want to retrieve it
`identified_by`	array	Recommended	An array of json objects, each of which is a name for the right, and MUST follow the requirements for Name
`classified_as`	array	Recommended	An array of json objects, each of which is a further classification of the right and MUST follow the requirements for Type
`referred_to_by`	array	Optional	An array of json objects, each of which is an embedded statement about the right
`possessed_by`	array	Optional	An array of json objects, each of which is a reference to a Person or Group that holds the right

Property Diagram

Incoming Properties

Right instances are typically found as the object of the following properties.

Property Name	Source Endpoint	Description
`subject_to`	Textual Work, Visual Work, Abstract Work, Statement	Intellectual things, primarily works, can have rights associated with them using the `subject_to` property

Example

A textual work is in the public domain.

The Textual Work is subject_to the Right
The Right itself does not have a URI, but has a type of Right
It is classified_as the sort of Right, in this case the Creative Commons URI for CC Zero
It is identified_by a Name, which is classified_as being a Display Title, and the content of "Public Domain"

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/text/1",
  "type": "LinguisticObject",
  "_label": "Example Text",
  "subject_to": [
    {
      "type": "Right",
      "_label": "Public Domain status of Example Text",
      "classified_as": [
        {
          "id": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
          "type": "Type",
          "_label": "cc0"
        }
      ],
      "identified_by": [
        {
          "type": "Name",
          "classified_as": [
            {
              "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404669",
              "type": "Type",
              "_label": "Display Title"
            }
          ],
          "content": "Public Domain"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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