How does copyrightMD fit into the CDL Rights Framework?
The CDL Rights Framework was developed to provide a broad framework for understanding the digital rights environment of the CDL, and provides general policies that will guide the decisions that must be made as resources are created, acquired and shared in a digital environment. The CDL Rights Framework follows the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) work describing six stages of rights that correspond approximately to the digital resource workflow. The first three stages (recognition of rights, assertion of rights and expression of rights) make up the policy creation phase of digital rights management; the last three stages (dissemination of rights, exposure of rights and enforcement of rights) are the policy projection phases. The creation of the copyright metadata schema falls under the third phase–expression of rights.
