has copyright

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

Relates a work to its reified copyright.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Entity -> gmeow:Copyright

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:hasCopyright from gmeow:Entity to gmeow:Copyright when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

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#> .

# --- The asset, with the FLAT-first rights edges (the common case) plus a
#     promoted RightsStatement because permissions/prohibitions/duties are needed.
ex:dataset a gmeow:Dataset ;
    gmeow:title "Coastal Bird Survey 2026"@en ;
    gmeow:hasCopyright       ex:copyright ;
    gmeow:hasLicense         ex:ccbync ;
    gmeow:hasRightsStatement ex:rights .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Entity, gmeow:Copyright

Projects To

Linkages

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

Projection Coverage

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the flat-first link from a work to its reified gmeow:Copyright — the common case where copyright holder, year, and status are recorded without a full deontic policy.

Avoid when

• Avoid promoting to a gmeow:RightsStatement unless explicit permissions/prohibitions/duties are needed, and avoid carrying the year or notice directly on the work; those live on the gmeow:Copyright relator.

How to use

• Assert one gmeow:hasCopyright per work pointing at a gmeow:Copyright relator that carries the holders, year, notice, and status.

Examples

• ex:report gmeow:hasCopyright ex:reportCopyright.

Use For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerPublicSite
• gmeow:consumerSchemaOrgJsonLd
• gmeow:consumerWikidata