rights type

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

The kind(s) of intellectual-property right a statement concerns — one of the open gmeow:RightsType values (copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design, trade secret, related rights, moral rights, database right, plant breeders' rights). Non-functional: a statement may span several.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:RightsStatement -> gmeow:RightsType

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:rightsType from gmeow:RightsStatement to gmeow:RightsType when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:RightsStatement, gmeow:RightsType

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to tag the kind(s) of IP right a rights statement concerns — copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral rights, database right, … — by referencing gmeow:RightsType values.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it for the copyright or trademark status (gmeow:copyrightStatus / gmeow:trademarkStatus) and avoid collapsing a multi-right statement to one type — it is non-functional, so several coexist.

How to use

• Add one or more gmeow:rightsType values to a RightsStatement (non-functional); the values are aligned to Wikidata / WIPO by reference.

Examples

• ex:photoRights gmeow:rightsType gmeow:rightsTypeCopyright, gmeow:rightsTypeMoralRights.