Article permissions: copyright details, license URL, license text.
An example of book-, chapter-, and image-level permission statement
<book>
<book-meta>
...
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Margaret Harper Mills and Warwick Gould, CC BY-NC-ND</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"/>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://www.openbookpublishers.com/isbn/9781783740178#copyrighttab">
<license-p>This entire volume is published under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0),
which enables you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work in its entirety for
personal and non-commercial use, providing editor and author attribution is clearly stated.
However all the text and many of the individual chapters are licenced under the more
permissive Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0). See
permissions relating to individual chapters. Please note that illustrations may be issued
under separate licenses. See permissions relating to individual images.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
</book-meta>
<front-matter>...</front-matter>
<book-body>
<book-part id="ch1" book-part-type="chapter">
<book-part-meta>
...
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Warwick Gould, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"/>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://www.openbookpublishers.com/isbn/9781783740178#copyrighttab">
<license-p>This chapter is published under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND
4.0), which enables you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal
and non-commercial use, providing editor and author attribution is clearly stated.
Please note that illustrations may be issued under separate licenses. See permissions
relating to individual images.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
</book-part-meta>
<body>
...
<fig id="fig1">
<label>Fig. 1</label>
<caption>
<p>Plaster cast of mask of W. B. Yeats by Kathleen Scott (née Bruce, later Lady Kennet),
1907. 17 1/2 in. (445 mm) high. Photograph courtesy and © The National Portrait Gallery,
London.</p>
</caption>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>The National Portrait Gallery, London. All rights
reserved</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<license license-type=""
xlink:href="http://www.openbookpublishers.com/isbn/9781783740178#copyrighttab"/>
</permissions>
<graphic xlink:href="images/fig1"/>
</fig>
...
</body>
</book-part>
<book-part id="ch2" book-part-type="chapter">
<book-part-meta>
...
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Alexandra Poulain, CC BY 4.0</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"/>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://www.openbookpublishers.com/isbn/9781783740178#copyrighttab">
<license-p>This chapter is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International Public License (CC BY 4.0), which allows you to share, copy, distribute,
transmit,adapt, and re-use the material so licenced, even for commercial purposes. Any
material copied or adapted in this way must be attributed to the editors and the
respective authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use
of the work). Please note that illustrations may be issued under separate licenses. See
permissions relating to individual images.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
</book-part-meta>
<body>...</body>
</book-part>
</book-body>
<book-back>...</book-back>
</book>
Notes
- How can we make clear in a machine readable way that it's necessary to go from the particular (individual image license) to the general (whole book)? - which is to say that the permission attached to the whole book excludes individual chapters, and the permission attached to individual chapters excludes images?
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2014 Surname et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Surname et al.</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the <ext-link
ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative
Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use, distribution,
reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly
attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and
either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright © 2012, Alegado et al</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2012</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Alegado et al</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution
License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the
original author and source are credited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: © 2014 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
<license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY 3.0), which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original author and source are credited. See
<uri xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</uri>.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
From Journal Publishing Tag Library - NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d1
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: © 2004 Eichenberger et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2004</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">
<license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
Notes
- Use of character entity references ("©") should be discouraged (? see issue #1)
<permissions>
<license>
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link>) which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
Compare @xlink:href with content of ext-link and text.
<permissions>
<license>
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"
>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link>) which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
cited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© Juan Valdez et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the
terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are
properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"
>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">
<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported License.</p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright © 2014 BleepBlip Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>BleepBlip Society</copyright-holder>
<license>
<license-p>
<ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://bleepblip.org/authorchoice_ccby_termsofuse.html">Terms of Use
CC-BY</ext-link>
</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright © 2014 BleepBlip Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>BleepBlip Society</copyright-holder>
<license>
<license-p>
<ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://bleepblip.org/authorchoice_termsofuse.html">Terms of Use</ext-link>
</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">
<license-p>This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any
medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no
modifications or adaptations are made.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright © 2014 BleepBlip Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>BleepBlip Society</copyright-holder>
<license>
<license-p>Open Access on 05/27/2015</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2014 The authors</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<license license-type="license">
<license-p>
<inline-graphic xlink:href="88x31.png"/>This work is licensed under a <ext-link
ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_GB"
>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
License</ext-link>.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement content-type="issue-copyright">© 2014 Published by Orange Blossom
Periodicals, Inc.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-statement content-type="article-copyright">© 2014 The Authors. <italic>Am Example
J.</italic> published by Orange Blossom Periodicals, Inc.</copyright-statement>
<license license-type="creativeCommonsBy">
<license-p>This is an open access article under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons
Attribution</ext-link> License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
</license>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p/>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© The Author(s) 2014</copyright-statement>
<license license-type="OpenAccess">
<license-p>
<bold>Open Access</bold> This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<license license-type="ccc">
<license-p>0148-0731/2014/136(08)/081004/7/<price>$0.00</price></license-p>
</license>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2014 Spinx <italic>et al.</italic> This article is
distributed by The American Society for Pugilistic Endeavors under license from the author(s).
Two months after publication it is available to the public under an
Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License
(<ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0"
>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0</ext-link>).</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<license license-type="creative-commons">
<license-p>“ASPE®,” “The American Society for Pugilistic
Endeavors®,” and “American Journal of Pugilism®” are
registered trademarks of The American Society of Cell Biology.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright © 2012 Medical
Publishing Corp.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2012</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access"
xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">
<license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits
unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
</license>
<license license-type="ccc">
<license-p>For permission to reuse copyrighted content from this publication,
please go to <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"
xlink:href="http://www.copyright.com">www.copyright.com</ext-link>, or
contact Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use and
redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
</license>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
<license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and
source are credited.</license-p>
</license>