DPLA, Europeana, Creative Commons Collaborate on International Rights Statements

"The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) joined forces with Europeana and Creative Commons (CC) to create a collaborative, interoperable platform for international rights statements. The International Rights Statement Working Group (Working Group), composed of representatives from the three organizations, spent the past 12 months outlining a proposal for a common framework to provide rights statements for both national and international cultural heritage objects. Currently a range of 12 different rights statements are being proposed. These will be hosted in their own namespace, rightsstatements.org, and will be available in multiple languages. The framework takes much of its inspiration from CC, which provides access to usage licenses as a not-for-profit third party. Much as users are now able to associate a CC license for materials on the web by referencing its uniform resource identifier (URI), the new international rights statement platform will provide persistent links to representations of the statements ..."