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25. Ensure that the license for each publication resource covers preservation, and express the license in a structured consistent way as part of the metadata.

When a publisher acquires rights for resources that are part of the publication, these should also include rights pertaining to the preservation of those resources. Express these rights in the metadata in a way that allows a preservation service to determine what they have permission to preserve and relate them to the relevant material.

These guidelines may also support the creation of license metadata: