Direct answer
Source Rights, in this definition, is limited to the following inspected scope. The schema can record a rights or license statement, URI, identifier, identifier scheme, and scheme URI for a resource. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Definition
Use the term only for the source-backed scope stated here; keep adjacent concepts separate unless a typed relationship is explicit.
A useful definition states both inclusion and exclusion conditions so a machine answer cannot silently widen it.
Applied scope: The schema can record a rights or license statement, URI, identifier, identifier scheme, and scheme URI for a resource.
Definition and operating context
The canonical concept owner is agentic-publishing. This route may apply release; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
This property may publish publishing protocols, editorial templates, release guidance. It must not publish duplicate research records or unlabelled machine authorship.
Evidence and exact locators
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.7: Rights — Rights property; rightsList; rightsUri; rightsIdentifier; rightsIdentifierScheme; schemeUri. Establishes: The schema can record a rights or license statement, URI, identifier, identifier scheme, and scheme URI for a resource.
What the evidence does not establish
Rights metadata records a supplied assertion or link; it does not grant rights, prove ownership, resolve territorial or contractual limits, or establish that a license covers a proposed use.
This route must not claim duplicate research records.
This route must not claim unlabelled machine authorship.
Related definitions and applications
same-topic-application: https://publish.mahastrategies.com/agentic-publishing/source-rights/example
property-home: https://publish.mahastrategies.com/
Questions this page can answer
What does Source Rights mean in this bounded context?
Source Rights, in this definition, is limited to the following inspected scope. The schema can record a rights or license statement, URI, identifier, identifier scheme, and scheme URI for a resource. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Which inspected sources support this definition answer?
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.7: Rights (Metadata Schema 4.7), at Rights property; rightsList; rightsUri; rightsIdentifier; rightsIdentifierScheme; schemeUri, supports the schema can record a rights or license statement, URI, identifier, identifier scheme, and scheme URI for a resource.
What does the evidence not establish?
Rights metadata records a supplied assertion or link; it does not grant rights, prove ownership, resolve territorial or contractual limits, or establish that a license covers a proposed use. Property boundary: This route may apply release; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
Which definition or canonical owner must be read first?
This page is the local agentic-publishing definition for its topic. Related applications may depend on it but may not silently redefine it.
What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?
Re-evaluate this page when a cited source, locator, governing instrument, local implementation, or canonical definition changes. Publication also requires a matching exact-revision review and active canonical release.