A person or organization who owns this Thing.

The person, organization, contact point, or audience that has been granted this permission.

An Organization (or ProgramMembership) to which this Person or Organization belongs.

A member of an Organization or a ProgramMembership. Organizations can be members of organizations; ProgramMembership is typically for individuals.

The direct performer or driver of the action (animate or inanimate). E.g. *John* wrote a book.

Other co-agents that participated in the action indirectly. E.g. John wrote a book with *Steve*.

A sub property of participant. The participant who is at the receiving end of the action.

A sub property of participant. The person that lends the object being borrowed.

The media network(s) whose content is broadcast on this station.

The organization owning or operating the broadcast service.

The service provider, service operator, or service performer; the goods producer. Another party (a seller) may offer those services or goods on behalf of the provider. A provider may also serve as the seller.

An entity which offers (sells / leases / lends / loans) the services / goods. A seller may also be a provider.

The author of this content or rating. Please note that author is special in that HTML 5 provides a special mechanism for indicating authorship via the rel tag. That is equivalent to this and may be used interchangeably.

A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event.

The party holding the legal copyright to the CreativeWork.

The creator/author of this CreativeWork. This is the same as the Author property for CreativeWork.

The person or organization who produced the work (e.g. music album, movie, TV/radio series etc.).

The publisher of the article in question.

The Organization on whose behalf the creator was working.

Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event.

The production company or studio responsible for the item, e.g. series, video game, episode etc.

People or organizations that endorse the plan.

The manufacturer of the product.

A sub property of participant. The person/organization being supported.