Announcement: The Launch of RightsStatements.org

In May 2015, the International Rights Statements Working Group released two white papers with our recommendations for establishing standardized rights statements for describing copyright and reuse status of digital cultural heritage materials, and the enabling technical infrastructure for those statements.   After working for nearly a year to implement the recommendations of the white papers, the Digital Public Library of America and Europeana are proud to announce the launch of RightsStatements.org. In partnership with Creative Commons, Kennisland and key stakeholders of the DPLA and Europeana networks, RightsStatements.org is a collaborative approach to rights statements that can be used to communicate the copyright status of cultural objects.

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