---
title: "Rights"
description: "The rights of the resource, or of the current Canvas, as a link to its license or rights statement."
url: https://clover.iiif.library.northwestern.edu/docs/primitives/rights
version: "4"
---
# Rights
\ (web components: \)0.2 kB added to a page with a Root, gzipped (web components: 7 kB added to a page with a \, styles included, gzipped)
The resource’s rights, or the current Canvas’s: a link to its license or rights statement.
> **Example**: a live example on the page, showing sample IIIF data. What it shows is demonstration content, not about Clover; its code, where the page gives it, follows.
**React**
```jsx
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**Web components**
```html
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## API reference
Reads `rights` from the Root’s resource and renders a link to it, the address as its text. It renders nothing while there is none. Its other props go to the `a`.
**React**
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| ----------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `of` | `"manifest" \| "canvas"` | `"manifest"` | Whose rights: the resource’s, or the Canvas the reader is on. |
| `value` | `string` | — | An address to link instead of the Root’s. Outside a `Root`, the one. |
| `className` | `string` | — | Added to `clover-rights`. |
**Web components**
### ``
The rights: a link to the license or rights statement.
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| -------- | ------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `of` | `"manifest" \| "canvas"` | `manifest` | Whose property: the Manifest's, or the Canvas in view's. |
| `value` | `string (a URL or JSON)` | — | A rights URL, instead of the root's: as text, a URL or JSON. Outside a root, the one to show. |
| `.value` | `string \| null` | — | As a property: A rights URL, instead of the root's. |
## Examples
### Under a heading
The link’s text is the address, as the property gives it, so place it where its context says what it is, as the [Panel](https://clover.iiif.library.northwestern.edu/docs/panel)’s About section does.
> **Example**: a live example on the page, showing sample IIIF data. What it shows is demonstration content, not about Clover; its code, where the page gives it, follows.
>
> #### Rights
**React**
```jsx
Rights
```
**Web components**
```html
Rights
```
### An address of your own
Give it `value` to link an address you hold, in a `Root` (web components: ``) or on its own.
> **Example**: a live example on the page, showing sample IIIF data. What it shows is demonstration content, not about Clover; its code, where the page gives it, follows.
**React**
```jsx
```
**Web components**
```html
```