Party (2020-05-19)

DDEX Data Dictionary, 2020-05-19

Party

A message term for ern:NewReleaseMessage.

A Thing that is a human or other animate being (real or imaginary), or a legal person, an organization or a machine capable of playing a role as an Agent (or active Thing).

Comments

Scope:
A Party may be any human or other animate being (real or imaginary), a legal person, organization or machine that is capable of playing a role as an Agent (or 'active Resource'). Party includes non-human and imaginary 'beings'.

Component Structure
Is Member of Composites	Composite Name	Description of Element Role	Cardinality	Data Type	Further Reading
	ern:PartyList	A Composite containing details of a Party.	1-n	ern:Party

Relationships
Parents	Thing	An Entity in a Context playing a role other than that of Time or Place.
Children	Character	A Party which plays a role in a Creation.
	ContextParty	A Party that plays a role in a Context.
	Contributor	A Party contributing to the making of a Creation.
	DisplayCreditParty	A Party credited with a display credit.
	DistributingCompany	A Party distributing a Creation.
	Organization	A Party which is either a legal Person (but not a natural Person) and/or a Group and/or an Organization Set.
	Person	A Party attributed with roles or characteristics of an individual human being.
	ReleasingCompany	A Party releasing a Creation.
	RightsHolder	A Party that holds the rights in respect of some or all rights in one or more Creations for specific territories, time periods, RightsTypes, UsageTypes and CommercialModelTypes (which may be anything up to and including all rights for the world, in perpetuity, for all types of Usage and for all types of CommercialModels). The RightsHolder may be a human being or other legal person or corporate entity. The RightsHolder may or may not also be a Licensor and/or a RightsAdministrator and/or a LicensingAgent and may authorise other parties to fulfil those roles. The RightsHolder may or may not be the MessageSender or MessageRecipient of a message in a specific information exchange defined by a DDEX Standard. A Rights Holder is sometimes be referred to as a RightsOwner.
	User	An Agent, that may be a human being or other legal person or corporate entity, that interacts with a Creation or provides access to a Creation to Consumers.