FAQ

No. A PRA mark is a record of a claim, not a grant of permission. Permission exists only where a Source A deed (a rights-holder's own grant) or a Source B licence (a competent national authority's decision) independently supplies it.

No, and it cannot. Source B is only available where national law already authorises a body to issue this kind of licence. Where no such law exists, PRA has nothing to offer beyond a voluntary Source A deed.

Record creation is open to any conforming node under published rules. Separately, each record carries an authority status: self-declared, institutionally reviewed, authority-recorded, or authority-issued. These are shown, not merged, so a reader can tell how official the record's basis is.

PRA-A is a voluntary grant signed by a named rights-holder who actually controls the right. PRA-B is a licence issued by a named competent national authority after a recorded diligent search, and exists only where a country's law provides for it.

A proposed status record: after a dated search, the listed components are believed free of copyright in the listed territories. It is not a licence, does not establish worldwide public-domain status, and does not necessarily resolve moral rights, contractual restrictions, privacy rights, trademark rights, or third-party material.

A marker for named components that are excluded from the grant or from the PD-V finding, such as a still-copyrighted preface or cover design. A COMP-X entry identifies the excluded component, its creator or rights claimant where known, the reason for exclusion, whether it is omitted or separately licensed, and the relevant territory and duration.

The record is not deleted. A status event is appended: verify the title, then suspend or terminate future uses under the governing national law. Accrued royalties remain payable. The prior record stays visible as history.

No. It proves that a claim, with stated evidence source, review status, authority status, and challenge status, has been recorded and is inspectable and challengeable. See the canonical evidence fields.

CC licenses are grants from a rights-holder who controls the work. PRA-A deeds serve that same role; PRA-B does not exist in CC's world at all, because CC has no mechanism for a national authority to license a work whose owner cannot be found. PD-V differs from CC's Public Domain Mark by naming specific territories rather than asserting a global, territory-blind status.

It doesn't try to. RightsStatements.org's In Copyright - Rights-holder(s) Unlocatable or Unidentifiable and In Copyright - EU Orphan Work statements describe close to the same underlying situations PRA-B addresses. PRA is built to sit downstream of that vocabulary, not replace it. Its job is to carry the equivalent information onto the physical page of a printed reprint, which RightsStatements.org was not designed to do. See the full crosswalk.

HathiTrust runs a per-volume rights-status database at very large scale, governing digital access to scanned books on one platform. PRA borrows the lesson that a status-and-reason-code register works operationally, but applies it to a physical reprint leaving a library or platform entirely, with a resolvable public ID printed on the page itself.

The EUIPO portal demonstrates that public information, statutory pathways, and rights-holder visibility can coexist in a real institutional system. It is restricted to cultural-heritage institutions and non-commercial use under EU law. PRA's community and commercial profiles go further than that model and depend on separate national legislation where it does not yet exist.

Component by component. A book with a public-domain main text and a still-protected preface is not marked "public domain" as a whole. The preface is listed under COMP-X as excluded, and any unsearched component defaults to exclusion from the reprint.

The challenge and the response both become part of the record's history through a published correction procedure. Records are never deleted: status changes through supersession events, so a reader can see what was claimed, what was challenged, and how it was resolved.

No. Linseed may operate a reference node, but it is explicitly not the exclusive registry, licensing authority, or payment holder. Any party may run a conforming node under the published schema.

The protocol and record format are published and open, and mirrors are expected. If an ID does not resolve anywhere, the printed mark should be treated as void. A copied badge on an old offset is not a record.

Only under PRA-C, and only with a posted national tariff, a named legal basis, and reporting terms on file. There is no PRA-C without those three things. See the framework paper for the full list of mandatory fields a commercial record must carry.

Yes. The no-permission verso form records rights information for provenance only, with no permission claimed for commercial reproduction. See the verso templates for the exact wording.