`<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

<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: See Using the -dita-use-conref-target value for more information.