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Abstract

Adds support for the atom:copyright element as a child of atom:entry. The intent is to allow for the expression of an entry's copyright information in cases where the copyright for an entry is different from the copyright of the enclosing feed. (Proposed By: BobWyman)

Status

Accepted

Rationale

The creator of a feed may claim copyright for the feed as a collection of entries even though one or more of the individual entries are covered by other copyrights. Given this, it is inappropriate, in some cases, to extrapolate from a feed's copyright that the feed's copyright statement covers all of the entries of the feed. Thus, it is appropriate to allow the explicit expression of copyright for the individual entries of a feed while preserving the ability to express copyright for the feed as a whole.

Proposal

Two changes to the current specification are proposed.

The modified sections would read:


4.10 "atom:copyright" Element

The "atom:copyright" element is a Content construct that conveys a human-readable copyright statement for the feed. atom:feed elements MAY contain an atom:copyright element, but MUST NOT contain more than one.

The atom:copyright element SHOULD NOT be used to convey machine-readable licensing information.

The atom:copyright may be assumed to apply to all entries contained by the feed except those entries which contain atom:copyright elements. The atom:copyright element MUST, if present, be considered to apply to the feed as a collection of entries.


4.13.?? "atom:copyright" Element

The "atom:copyright" element is a Content construct that conveys a human-readable copyright statement for the entry. atom:entry elements MAY contain an atom:copyright element, but MUST NOT contain more than one.

The atom:copyright element SHOULD NOT be used to convey machine-readable licensing information.

If an atom:entry element does not contain an atom:copyright element, then the atom:copyright element of the containing atom:feed, if present, should be considered to apply to the atom:entry.

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