The Dublin Core Rights Management Element

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Nota Bene: It is highly recommended that the user of this document read the Introduction to obtain a fuller understanding of Dublin Core and its implementation.

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Thr Rights Management Element is designed to allow the author to either state a copyright notice or point (URL and URN) to another source that contains that information.

SCHEMELANG
Freetext (default)
(textual description)
DC language
(default=English)
Standard ISO 639
URL
URN

The Freetext SCHEME, again, is default and is not required. An example of DC Rights management element is:

<META NAME="DC.rights" CONTENT="Copyright 1997 by Guy Frost">

This is a simple concept to grasp because everyone has read a copyright notice somewhere. Once your document is placed on the Web, it is considered published and a copyright notice, especially containing photographs or articles, is desirable.

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Copyright ©1997 by Guy Frost
Last Updated July 27, 1997