Registry of Rights Statements and Licenses

Status of this Document

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Editors:

Michael Appleby, Yale University
Tom Crane, Digirati
Robert Sanderson, Yale University
Dawn Childress, UCLA
Jeff Mixter, OCLC Research
Julie Winchester, Duke University

1. Introduction

This is one of a number of IIIF registries. It lists a set of rights statements and licenses for use across the IIIF APIs that have been identified as useful for implementations. They may be defined by the IIIF community, or outside of it.

Please send feedback to iiif-discuss@googlegroups.com

1.1. Disclaimer

The inclusion of entries in this document that are outside of the IIIF domain must not be interpreted as endorsement, support, or approval from the editors, the IIIF community or any individual. This document is provided as a registry to advertise the existence of these extensions and attempt to ensure some consistency between implementations for common but not universal requirements.

1.2. Inclusion Process

The process for having a new entry added to this registry is described here.

2. Requirements for Inclusion

3. Registry

This table summarizes the known rights statements and licenses available for use with the IIIF APIs.

Source	URIs	Notes
Creative Commons	`http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/` `http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/` For the full list of licenses, see About CC Licenses.	For usage, see the Presentation 3.0 Rights section
Rights Statements	`http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/` `http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/` For the full list of statements, see Rights Statements.	For usage, see the Presentation 3.0 Rights section

Appendices

A. Acknowledgements

Thanks to the members of the IIIF for their continuous engagement, innovative ideas and feedback.

B. Change Log

Date	Description
2024-08-02	Add existing Creative Commons and RightsStatements to table.