---
title: kMDItemRights
framework: coreservices
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: coreservices/kmditemrights
---

# kMDItemRights

Provides a link to information about rights held in and over the resource. A CFString.

## Declaration

```swift
let kMDItemRights: CFString!
```

## Discussion

Discussion Contains a rights management statement for the resource, or reference a service providing such information. Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights.  If this attribute is absent, no assumptions can be made about the status of these and other rights with respect to the resource.