4.3 Rights/licence

Required	Repeatable
No	Yes

Definition:

Any intellectual property rights and/or licensing information regarding sharing and/or secondary use of the data object. This may be expressed as:

• A textual statement of the rights management associated with the asset

• A legal document under which the asset is made available (e.g. a data sharing agreement template)

See also Permitted uses [4.1] and Data sharing policy [4.2].

Metadata fields:

Example DataCite XML

<rightsList>
  <rights xml:lang="en" rightsURI="https://www.uni.edu.au/licence">Access to this data is subject to a licence agreement</rights>
</rightsList>

DataCite 16 Rights

Occurrences: 0-n

Input type: Text

Example input: Access to this data is subject to a licence agreement

Controlled vocabulary source: Nil

Notes:

DataCite 16.a rightsURI

Occurrences: 0-1

Input type: Text

Example input:

https://www.uni.edu.au/licence

Controlled vocabulary source: Nil

Notes: This should be a link to a template licence that a third party user might need to agree to in order to access the data.