Prohibition

• CURIE: gmeow:Prohibition
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/Prohibition
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/rights
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A rule that forbids the exercise of a gmeow:RightsAction over the governed asset (odrl:Prohibition).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Rule

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Prohibition as a specialized kind of gmeow:Rule. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Licensed Dataset

• Source: slices/core/rights/examples/licensed-dataset.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-rights-examples-licensed-dataset

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: rights are flat-first, promoted on demand ( P4). The
# common case is a single gmeow:hasLicense + gmeow:hasCopyright edge — no relator
# needed. Only when the deontic RULES matter (who may do what, under which duty,
# what is forbidden) is the flat form PROMOTED to a gmeow:RightsStatement bearing
# the ODRL-superset trio: gmeow:Permission / gmeow:Prohibition / gmeow:Duty, each
# over an open gmeow:RightsAction value. A licence is itself an Agreement, aligned
# to CC/ODRL by reference (spdxLicenseId, licenseFamily) — never owl:sameAs (P5).
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/rights/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- Prohibition: no commercial use (the NC of CC BY-NC).
ex:prohCommercial a gmeow:Prohibition ;
    gmeow:ruleAction gmeow:actionCommercialize .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Rule

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: odrl, premis

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use for a forbidden action — something the assignee may not do with the asset (the odrl:Prohibition rule), e.g. no commercial use under a CC BY-NC licence.

Avoid when

• Avoid for an allowed action (use gmeow:Permission) or an obligation (use gmeow:Duty), and avoid relying on omission to forbid — under an open-world policy a missing permission is not a prohibition; assert it.

How to use

• Mint one Prohibition per forbidden action with a single gmeow:ruleAction, link it with gmeow:hasProhibition, and attach a remedy via gmeow:ruleConsequence; the enclosing statement's gmeow:conflictStrategy decides permission-vs-prohibition ties.

Examples

• ex:noCommercialUse a gmeow:Prohibition; gmeow:ruleAction gmeow:actionCommercialize.