Rightholder

Rightholders are all of those persons who may have rights in any given work and therefore have the requisite rights necessary to licence the work for a certain use. Whether this person is the author, the publisher or other depends upon the circumstances of the contractual agreements/the applicable law. (Definition as in the Final Report of 3.06.2008 of the High Level Expert Group (HLEG) – Copyright Subgroup on European Digital Libraries established by the Eurupean Commission in relation to the i2010 Digital Libraries initiative, as adopted by the HLEG on 4 June 2008.)

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