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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
Processes defined by standards can be identified by associations with their proof of compliance. Since integration with the GeoDRM system will require compliance with
DRM standards, they will carry both base functionality proof and GeoDRM proof of compliance.
9.5.3.2.4 Usage Rights
9.5.3.2.4.1 Use right
The “Use” right allows a client to obtain a resource and have access to the information contained therein. It therefore subsumes all usage rights except Modify. Thus, many of
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the rights in the sections to follow may be collectively given by a single “Use” right. This right may be defined as a collection of the rights, or may be defined in a stand-alone
manner, even in the absence of the finer detailed usage rights.
9.5.3.2.4.2 View, Display, Print right
The “View” right shall allow a licensee to view the resource as a map properly scaled graphic representation, either vector or raster. This is the default minimal right, in that it
is included almost universally in any licence that is of value. When the creation of derived or combined resource is allowed, the view right shall be licensable by the user
holding the “derive” rights under which the resource was created. The limits of those licences may be restricted by that user’s rights condition.
Since the usefulness of separating print, or display such as from within an embedding document from view is highly questionable; this specification does not distinguish
between these. Implementation specifications may do so if the environments in which they work have a reason to do so. There is a technical issue that most browsers or other
display software components are probably not DRM enabled and so separation of these rights may require acquisition of special display software to enforce them.
9.5.3.2.4.3 Combine, merge right
The “Combine” right shall allow a licensee to integrate the resource with other resources in a map in the same coordinate reference system. All input resources must carry this
same combine right and be of the same information type e.g. all images, all maps, all feature collections.
9.5.3.2.4.4 Extract Resource or Copy right
