{"id":"linked-art/api/shared-rights","relativePath":"linked-art/api/shared-rights.md","title":"Linked Art API: Shared Rights","markdown":"# Linked Art API: Shared Rights\n\n**Last refreshed:** 2026-07-06\n\nSource: [Rights shared structure](https://linked.art/api/1.0/shared/right/), part of Linked Art API 1.0, published under [CC BY 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This is a project summary; the upstream page is authoritative.\n\n## Purpose\n\nRights structures express machine-comparable, but not necessarily directly actionable, rights assertions about intellectual works. The kind of right or license is conveyed through `classified_as`, such as a Creative Commons URI.\n\nRights are commonly attached to textual works, visual works, abstract works, and statements with `subject_to`.\n\n## Required Shape\n\nA right structure includes:\n\n- `type`: required. Must be `Right`.\n- `id`: optional URI identifying the right description.\n- `_complete`: optional completeness signal. If an `id` URI has richer dereferenceable information, `_complete: false` must be present.\n\n## Recommended Fields\n\n- `_label`: developer-facing label.\n- `identified_by`: names for the right, following the `Name` pattern.\n- `classified_as`: right or license classifications, following the `Type` pattern.\n\n## Optional Fields\n\n- `referred_to_by`: embedded statements about the right.\n- `possessed_by`: people or groups that hold the right.\n\n## Common Incoming Relationships\n\n- `subject_to`: used by `LinguisticObject`, `VisualItem`, `PropositionalObject`, and statement structures when an intellectual thing is subject to a right.\n\n## Meta Museum Notes\n\nMeta Museum already preserves rights and reuse signals on records, media, statements, and dataset exports. Existing partner-reviewed dataset packaging also distinguishes dataset-level license from per-record object/content/media rights. The project should keep `Right` structures machine-readable while retaining explicit reuse warnings when rights are unknown or non-reuse.\n\n## Test Ideas\n\n- Preserve `Right` structures on textual, visual, abstract, and statement records through `subject_to`.\n- Preserve `classified_as` license/right URIs, including Creative Commons-style identifiers.\n- Preserve `identified_by` display names such as Public Domain.\n- Preserve `referred_to_by` rights statements.\n- Preserve `possessed_by` person/group references when supplied.\n- Add a dereferenceable right `id` with richer detail available and verify `_complete: false`.\n","sections":[{"level":2,"heading":"Purpose","anchor":"purpose"},{"level":2,"heading":"Required Shape","anchor":"required-shape"},{"level":2,"heading":"Recommended Fields","anchor":"recommended-fields"},{"level":2,"heading":"Optional Fields","anchor":"optional-fields"},{"level":2,"heading":"Common Incoming Relationships","anchor":"common-incoming-relationships"},{"level":2,"heading":"Meta Museum Notes","anchor":"meta-museum-notes"},{"level":2,"heading":"Test Ideas","anchor":"test-ideas"}],"html":"<h1 id=\"linked-art-api-shared-rights\">Linked Art API: Shared Rights</h1>\n<p><strong>Last refreshed:</strong> 2026-07-06</p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https://linked.art/api/1.0/shared/right/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"doc-link\">Rights shared structure</a>, part of Linked Art API 1.0, published under <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"doc-link\">CC BY 4.0</a>. This is a project summary; the upstream page is authoritative.</p>\n<h2 id=\"purpose\">Purpose</h2>\n<p>Rights structures express machine-comparable, but not necessarily directly actionable, rights assertions about intellectual works. The kind of right or license is conveyed through `classified_as`, such as a Creative Commons URI.</p>\n<p>Rights are commonly attached to textual works, visual works, abstract works, and statements with `subject_to`.</p>\n<h2 id=\"required-shape\">Required Shape</h2>\n<p>A right structure includes:</p>\n<ul><li>`type`: required. Must be `Right`.</li><li>`id`: optional URI identifying the right description.</li><li>`_complete`: optional completeness signal. If an `id` URI has richer dereferenceable information, `_complete: false` must be present.</li></ul>\n<h2 id=\"recommended-fields\">Recommended Fields</h2>\n<ul><li>`_label`: developer-facing label.</li><li>`identified_by`: names for the right, following the `Name` pattern.</li><li>`classified_as`: right or license classifications, following the `Type` pattern.</li></ul>\n<h2 id=\"optional-fields\">Optional Fields</h2>\n<ul><li>`referred_to_by`: embedded statements about the right.</li><li>`possessed_by`: people or groups that hold the right.</li></ul>\n<h2 id=\"common-incoming-relationships\">Common Incoming Relationships</h2>\n<ul><li>`subject_to`: used by `LinguisticObject`, `VisualItem`, `PropositionalObject`, and statement structures when an intellectual thing is subject to a right.</li></ul>\n<h2 id=\"meta-museum-notes\">Meta Museum Notes</h2>\n<p>Meta Museum already preserves rights and reuse signals on records, media, statements, and dataset exports. Existing partner-reviewed dataset packaging also distinguishes dataset-level license from per-record object/content/media rights. The project should keep `Right` structures machine-readable while retaining explicit reuse warnings when rights are unknown or non-reuse.</p>\n<h2 id=\"test-ideas\">Test Ideas</h2>\n<ul><li>Preserve `Right` structures on textual, visual, abstract, and statement records through `subject_to`.</li><li>Preserve `classified_as` license/right URIs, including Creative Commons-style identifiers.</li><li>Preserve `identified_by` display names such as Public Domain.</li><li>Preserve `referred_to_by` rights statements.</li><li>Preserve `possessed_by` person/group references when supplied.</li><li>Add a dereferenceable right `id` with richer detail available and verify `_complete: false`.</li></ul>","updatedAt":"2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z","checksum":"9975708ccd026656f525fa41c8dd4fe30716f79e0a0d321dbf4cb3b4bdd3f220","checksumPrefix":"9975708ccd02","anchorCount":7,"lineCount":48,"rawUrl":"/api/docs/content?path=linked-art%2Fapi%2Fshared-rights.md","htmlUrl":"/docs?doc=linked-art%2Fapi%2Fshared-rights.md","apiUrl":"/api/docs/content?path=linked-art%2Fapi%2Fshared-rights.md"}