<copyright-holder>

Copyright Holder

Name of the organizational or personal entity that holds a copyright.

Remarks

The copyright holder is typically identified within the copyright statement, as this statement is expected to be displayed. The copyright holder name may also be repeated in this element for purposes of searching and metadata extraction.
The <copyright-holder>, <copyright-statement>, and <copyright-year> elements may be used only within the container element <permissions>.

Related Elements

There are three copyright elements which may be contained in the <permissions> grouping element:
  • <copyright-statement>, which is the textual statement of the copyright intended for print and display (The full statement usually contains the copyright holder’s name and the year among other information.);
  • <copyright-year>, a metadata element that names just the copyright year (This is intended for metadata searching and aggregation and is typically not displayed.); and
  • <copyright-holder>, also a metadata element that is typically not displayed.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  copyright-holder
                        (#PCDATA %copyright-holder-elements;)*       >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | institution | institution-wrap | sub | sup)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<permissions>

Example 

...
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="pmid">...</article-id>
<title-group>...</title-group>
<contrib-group>...</contrib-group>
<aff id="StLukes">...</aff>
<pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="1999-03-27">
<day>27</day><month>03</month><year>1999</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>318</volume>
<issue>7187</issue>
<fpage>837</fpage>
<lpage>841</lpage>
<history>
<date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="1999-01-29">
<day>29</day>
<month>01</month>
<year>1999</year></date>
</history>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1999, British
Medical Journal</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>British Medical Journal</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<abstract>
<p>To examine the effectiveness of
day hospital attendance in prolonging independent living for elderly
people.</p>
</abstract>
</article-meta>
...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015)

Version of December 2015

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