Permission Defaults

Manager members of organizations can access the Organization Permission Defaults settings in the Permissions tab of the Organization edit page. These settings specify default values for ownership, licensing, download control, and re-use for newly contributed media representing an organization physical object. This helps to guide other MorphoSource users in applying the most appropriate ownership and permissions settings when contributing new media representing physical objects managed by an organization. An example of a mostly blank initial version of the form can be seen to the right. These settings only apply to object-managing organizations, not to device-managing organizations.

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Organization managers can modify each field to indicate their preferred settings for media ownership and permission. For more information about each of these fields, please see Rights, Licenses, and Usage Settings for Media. Leaving a field blank indicates the organization has no preference regarding what contributors should include in that field. Certain fields (IP holder, Copyright statement, and License) have checkboxes to indicate that a field has intentionally been left blank. If this is checked, this means the organization indicates that they specifically prefer that the field be left blank, rather than that no preference exists.

Some fields and controls on this form benefit from further explanation, and whether you take advantage of them may depend on your organization's specific use case. They are listed here.