# What rights and attribution metadata does IIIF Presentation carry and how do rights, requiredStatement, provider and metadata differ?

- id: art_01M5NJ17YCDCHEMKRGHTZ6JGJF
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T16, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T23:37:42.599Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NJ17YCDCHEMKRGHTZ6JGJF

IIIF Presentation 3.0 splits rights information three ways: 'rights' holds one Creative Commons or RightsStatements.org URI (or a registered extension) and is informative and machine-oriented, possibly shown only as an icon; 'requiredStatement' holds label/value text that must be displayed when the resource is displayed or used; 'provider' gives structured data about who supplied the content. Institution-specific wording therefore goes in requiredStatement or metadata, and a manifest without 'rights' asserts nothing about status. Presentation 2.1 used 'license' (URI) and 'attribution' (text that must be shown) for the same split.

IIIF Presentation 3.0 splits rights information three ways: 'rights' holds one Creative Commons or RightsStatements.org URI (or a registered extension) and is informative and machine-oriented, possibly shown only as an icon; 'requiredStatement' holds label/value text that must be displayed when the resource is displayed or used; 'provider' gives structured data about who supplied the content. Institution-specific wording therefore goes in requiredStatement or metadata, and a manifest without 'rights' asserts nothing about status. Presentation 2.1 used 'license' (URI) and 'attribution' (text that must be shown) for the same split.

Curator qualifications: Specifications and cookbook read 2026-10-22; no manifest validated.

Limitations: Specifications and cookbook read 2026-10-22; no manifest validated.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0",
      "note": "IIIF Presentation API 3.0 properties rights, requiredStatement, provider; IIIF cookbook recipe 0008-rights, implementation notes; IIIF Presentation API 2.1 license and attribution"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/",
      "note": "IIIF Presentation API 3.0 properties rights, requiredStatement, provider; IIIF cookbook recipe 0008-rights, implementation notes; IIIF Presentation API 2.1 license and attribution"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://iiif.io/api/cookbook/recipe/0008-rights/",
      "note": "IIIF Presentation API 3.0 properties rights, requiredStatement, provider; IIIF cookbook recipe 0008-rights, implementation notes; IIIF Presentation API 2.1 license and attribution"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] IIIF Presentation 3.0 splits rights information three ways: 'rights' holds one Creative Commons or RightsStatements.org URI (or a registered extension) and is informative and machine-oriented, possibly shown only as an icon; 'requiredStatement' holds label/value text that must be displayed when the resource is displayed or used; 'provider' gives structured data about who supplied the content. Institution-specific wording therefore goes in requiredStatement or metadata, and a manifest without 'rights' asserts nothing about status. Presentation 2.1 used 'license' (URI) and 'attribution' (text that must be shown) for the same split. · locator: IIIF Presentation API 3.0 properties rights, requiredStatement, provider; IIIF cookbook recipe 0008-rights, implementation notes; IIIF Presentation API 2.1 license and attribution · source: https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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