Copyright © 2006 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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9.5.3.2 Rights
9.5.3.2.1 Rights semantics
A Right is defined in ISO 21000-5 as an act identified by an r:Right which is an element of a licence. Rights may generally be classified into but are not necessarily
limited to the following categories:
• Copyrights © that are legally defined rights granted to the original producer of
certain types of works. They vary in nature between legal system, and not all entities of value are subject to copyright in a particular legal system.
• Ownership rights that are legally defined rights inherent in the act of producing
the resource, possibly in conjunction with copyrights. The Owner is the root of most other right grants.
• Usage rights that are granted either by the owner or through legal mechanism
such as fair use in the United States that allow principals to use a resource entity for some purpose. Each purpose is in effect a separate right.
• Meta-rights that are rights to grant rights.
• Management rights are those that perform acts on the entity as a whole without an
interpretation of its meanings. Such rights might include copying, indexing, moving, change in formats or coordinate system. In such cases the actual resource
is not used, but is only changed in format, location or inclusion in various aspects of a resource management systems.
9.5.3.2.2 Note on Multiple copies of resource and Rights names
When a resource exists in multiple identical copies, it may carry the same resource identity and be manipulated by licensees holding the appropriate rights on the resource.
Any modification of the resource must result in a change of identity, and the addition of appropriate process metadata to aid in the tracking of rights back to the original resource
owners or their agents.
The requirements for name formats vary from implementation to implementation, and the names for rights used here are not meant to be normative. In proving conformance, an
implementation specification should map its specified right names to the ones here.
9.5.3.2.3 Standards-defined operations
