<copyright>
The <copyright> element specifies
         legal ownership of the content.
      
      The <copyright> element is used for a single copyright entry. It includes the copyright years and the copyright holder. Multiple <copyright> statements are allowed.
This element is equivalent to the <Rights> element in Dublin Core.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
- topic/copyright
Example
<prolog> <copyright> <copyryear year="2001-04-12"></copyryear> <copyrholder>IBM</copyrholder> </copyright> <copyright type="secondary"> <copyryear year="2002-03-03"></copyryear> <copyrholder>Schweetones Publishing, Inc.</copyrholder> </copyright> </prolog>
Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group and the attribute defined below.
- @type
 - Indicates the legal status of the copyright holder. Note that this differs from the @type
                        attribute on many other DITA elements. Beginning
                     with DITA 1.2, values in this attribute are not limited to a small number of choices;
                     the
                     following values were used in DITA 1.0 and DITA 1.1, and are still provided as sample
                     values: 
                     
- primary
 - The copyright holder with first claim on the copyright
 - secondary
 - An additional copyright holder who is not primary
 - -dita-use-conref-target
 - See Using the -dita-use-conref-target value for more information.