A content owner is concerned about violating current license agreements for assets that nave reached their contract end date. The Business Practitioner needs to make sure the published assets get unpublished. Users from the Authors or Contributors groups should not be able to republish an asset when it reaches Us contract end date. Which asset property should the 8usmess Practitioner set?

The Expires property (dam:expiryDate) is the designated feature in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets for managing the lifecycle of assets based on contract or license end dates. Setting this property ensures that once an asset reaches its expiration date, it is marked as "Expired." This status change can trigger automated unpublishing via the "DAM Update Asset" workflow. More importantly, an expired asset cannot be published or republished by users in standard groups like Authors or Contributors, directly addressing the core requirement of preventing license violations.

A. Off Time: This property schedules a one-time deactivation (unpublishing) event. It does not prevent an author from removing the "Off Time" and republishing the asset, failing to meet the license enforcement requirement.
C. Usage Terms: This is a descriptive metadata field for informational purposes. It does not trigger any automated system actions and has no effect on an asset's publishable status.
D. isCheckedOut: This property is a temporary status indicating that an asset is locked for editing. It is part of the versioning control system and is unrelated to publishing lifecycle or license compliance. ---

1. Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Documentation, "Asset expiration":

"You can expire assets in Adobe Experience Manager Assets by specifying a date and time. After an asset expires, it is not published or delivered from Experience Manager... The expired assets and their sub-assets are either unpublished from Experience Manager or are not published."

"Users with assets-user permissions cannot perform any operations on the expired assets, including view, edit, copy, move, publish, and download." This directly confirms that Authors/Contributors cannot republish.

Section: Manage assets > Asset expiration.

2. Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 Assets User Guide, "Asset Expiration":

"AEM Assets lets you set an expiration date for assets. Once an asset expires, it is not published from AEM. A user with administrator permissions can publish or re-publish an expired asset." This highlights that non-admin users, such as Authors, are restricted.

Section: Managing Assets > Asset Expiration.

3. Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Documentation, "Publishing Pages":

"On Time: The selected time at which the published page (or asset) will be activated. Off Time: The selected time at which the published page (or asset) will be deactivated." This reference clarifies that "Off Time" is a scheduling mechanism for deactivation, distinct from the lifecycle status management provided by the "Expires" property.

Section: Authoring > Sites > Publishing Pages > On and Off Time.