useRestrict may indicate limitations imposed by an owner, repository, or legal statute (for example, copyright law) regarding the reproduction, publication, or quotation of the item. It may also indicate the absence of restrictions, such as when rights have been ceded to the public domain. Do not confuse this element with the accessRestrict element, which holds information about conditions affecting the availability of the material.
This element is modelled on an element in the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard.
<elementSpec ident="useRestrict" module="MEI.header">
<desc>(usage restrictions) – Container for information about the conditions that affect
use of a
bibliographic item after access has been granted.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="att.common"/>
<memberOf key="att.authorized"/>
<memberOf key="att.bibl"/>
<memberOf key="att.lang"/>
<memberOf key="model.titlePagePart"/>
</classes>
<remarks>
<p> <gi scheme="MEI">useRestrict</gi> may indicate limitations imposed by an owner,
repository, or legal statute (for example, copyright law) regarding the reproduction,
publication, or quotation of the item. It may also indicate the absence of restrictions,
such as when rights have been ceded to the public domain. Do not confuse this element
with
the <gi scheme="MEI">accessRestrict</gi> element, which holds information about conditions
affecting the availability of the material.</p>
</remarks>
<remarks>
<p>This element is modelled on an element in the Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
standard.</p>
</remarks>
</elementSpec>