Indicating ownership and use using rights property

Identifiable entities are significant enough that users may wish to indicate ownership of the copyright of the thing that they represent, or to provide some statement of a licence under which that data may be used. This information is held in the rights element as a series of Right objects, each representing a single rights statement.

Note that the assertation of rights in the data is not the same as access rights in terms of application-level security which is dealt with in a later section.