I'd probably do: <name type="personal"> <namePart>Taylor, Mike</namePart> <role> <roleTerm type="code" authority="marcrelator">cph</roleTerm> <roleTerm type="text" authority="marcrelator">Copyright holder</roleTerm> </role> </name> That could be used either in the main record, or inside <relatedItem> as Ray suggested if you're just referring to the abstract. Jenn (Chair, MODS Editorial Committee) -------------------------------- Jenn Riley Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://cdla.unc.edu/ http://www.lib.unc.edu/users/jlriley [log in to unmask] (919) 843-5910 On 6/13/11 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.)