n.metadata indicating a digital object’s copyright status and the terms of its reuseBahnemann et al. 2020This is an illustration of one possible approach to determining which rights statement to associate with a digital object. More than one rights statement may be appropriate for some objects, and organizations may choose among these based on a variety of factors.Benson and Stitzlein 2020, 761The issue of inconsistent language was often attributed to practices no longer in use, while the absence of any rights statement was often attributed to having incomplete archival intake paperwork that failed to address rights and licensing at the time. RightsStatements.org 2020RightsStatements.org provides a set of standardized rights statements that can be used to communicate the copyright and re-use status of digital objects to the public.
