On 13 June 2011 16:58, Benjamin Florin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The MODS convention is to add an accessCondition containing copyright
> information expressed in a more specialized schema. There's an example
> at:
>
>  http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/accesscondition.html
>
> The word "copyright" in copyrightDate in originInfo is a bit of a
> misdirect in this case, since copyright date is always relevant to the
> resource's origin but the identity of the rights holder isn't.

Many thanks for this, I don't think I would have spotted it!

Any thoughts on how I might use this to express the copyright status
of the item's abstract?

-- Mike.



>
> Cheers,
> Ben Florin
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> So far as I can make out from the element descriptions at
>>        http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/origininfo.html
>> and related pages, there seems to be no way to express in MODS who the
>> copyright holder of a work is -- which seems strange, as you CAN state
>> the copyright date.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> (The <publisher> element is not the answer here, as it's not at all
>> unusual for the copyright to be held by someone other than the
>> publisher -- the author, for example.)
>>
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