Typically, rights information includes a statement about various property rights associated with the resource, including intellectual property rights. (en-us)
A second property with the same name as this property has been declared in the dcterms: namespace (http://purl.org/dc/terms/). See the Introduction to the document "DCMI Metadata Terms" (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) for an explanation. (en-us)