rights management information
rights-management information. Intellectual property. Information about an intellectual-property right, affixed to the subject matter when it is communicated to the public, esp. in electronic form, and identifying the right’s owner, terms of use, indexing numbers or codes, or other identifying information. • The information facilitates contracting with the owner of the rights. In digital technology, laws may ban the removal or alteration of rights-management information as a form of intellectual-property protection.
