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Help protect uses of your news content - by providing licensing information in the article

hnews can have usage rights embedded into each article published.

You can do this by:

  • Linking to full details of the usage rights from the article, using rel-item-license (these usage rights can be written by you, rather than those defined by Creative Commons)

Embedding rights in each article is useful because:

  • Usage rights travel with the document, and if source information is lost, the usage rights are still available
  • Different usage rights can be reflected in each article (for example, where the author is a freelance or belongs to a news agency)
  • Aggregators and other re-users of news have more information on which to base their re-use
  • People can search for news based on its usage rights
  • Defines a default set of rights for users who have no commercial relationship with the originating party
 

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