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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.) >> > >