ePub Permissions: Defining Licensed To

[zooph555]

When I open Adobe Digital Editions, if I right-click on my epub book and click: "Item Info" it says:

Permissions

Licensed To: Unknown
Viewing: on any device
Copying: on any device
Printing: on any device

How can I change: "Licensed To:" from "Unknown" to "Educational Institutions and Students Only"?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by zooph555

How can I change: "Licensed To:" from "Unknown" to "Educational Institutions and Students Only"?

You cannot without using DRM and that's not cheap.

[zooph555]

Is there no way to manually edit the rights.xml or content.opf to set any of these values? I want the values to be the same for everybody. I don't mind if people copy and share the epub file but I want to define those items.

[AnemicOak]

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[mrmikel]

What is the point if no one will see it and it isn't enforceable?

Why not just put in a page prior to the title page saying so?

[JSWolf]

rights.xml is only for when the ePub is DRM protected. If not, then rights.xml is not used.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by mrmikel

Why not just put in a page prior to the title page saying so?

Indeed, or just add a little line to your copyright page. Example, this is what we do:

<p>Published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a></p>

Or in a few books we also add in the CC "button":

<p>Published under the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a></p>

  <div class="center"><img alt="CC-BY" height="112" src="../Images/cc-by.png" width="320" /></div>

You can use this form to figure out which type of CC would work well for you:

https://creativecommons.org/choose/

For example, using the dialogs, I was able to generate figure out this CC3.0: "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported": https://creativecommons.org/licenses...3.0/deed.en_US

This means:

• Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
• Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
• No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

You can also get an SVG/EPS/PNGs of all of the different CC "buttons" here:

https://creativecommons.org/about/downloads

If you want, just let me know which CC3.0 is applicable to your book/document, and I would not mind generating a PNG for you to use in your EPUB. Or you can just use those pre-built ones (I prefer more flexibility in output size).

In EPUB, you cannot really STOP anyone from printing/copying/editing/pirating the EPUB, but you can only hope they respect the Creative Commons you choose.

You can also use the Sigil Metadata Editor:

http://web.sigil.googlecode.com/git/.../metadata.html

to add in some information in the "Rights" metadata (although rarely anybody ever looks there, and not many programs even use that metadata).