copyright
The copyright element specifies legal ownership of the content.
The copyright element is used for a single copyright entry. It includes the copyright years and the copyright holder. Multiple copyright statements are allowed.
This element is equivalent to the Rights element in Dublin Core.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
- topic/copyright
Example 139. Example
<prolog>
<copyright>
<copyryear year="2001-04-12"></copyryear>
<copyrholder>IBM</copyrholder>
</copyright>
<copyright type="secondary">
<copyryear year="2002-03-03"></copyryear>
<copyrholder>Schweetones Publishing, Inc.</copyrholder>
</copyright>
</prolog>
Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element:
Universal attribute group and the attribute defined below.
type
Indicates the legal status of the copyright holder. Note that this differs from the type attribute on many other DITA elements. Beginning with DITA 1.2, values in this attribute are not limited to a small number of choices; the following values were used in DITA 1.0 and DITA 1.1, and are still provided as sample values:
primary
The copyright holder with first claim on the copyright
secondary
An additional copyright holder who is not primary
-dita-use-conref-target
Parent topic