diff --git a/app/controllers/dois_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dois_controller.rb
index 0a0b82382..b67689457 100644
--- a/app/controllers/dois_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/dois_controller.rb
@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ def safe_params
       :descriptions,
       { descriptions: [:description, :descriptionType, :lang] },
       :rightsList,
-      { rightsList: [:rights, :rightsUri] },
+      { rightsList: [:rights, :rightsUri, :lang] },
       :xml,
       :regenerate,
       :source,
@@ -510,9 +510,9 @@ def safe_params
       :should_validate,
       :client,
       :creators,
-      { creators: [:nameType, { nameIdentifiers: [:nameIdentifier, :nameIdentifierScheme, :schemeUri] }, :name, :givenName, :familyName, :affiliation] },
+      { creators: [:nameType, { nameIdentifiers: [:nameIdentifier, :nameIdentifierScheme, :schemeUri] }, :name, :givenName, :familyName, :affiliation, :lang] },
       :contributors,
-      { contributors: [:nameType, { nameIdentifiers: [:nameIdentifier, :nameIdentifierScheme, :schemeUri] }, :name, :givenName, :familyName, :affiliation, :contributorType] },
+      { contributors: [:nameType, { nameIdentifiers: [:nameIdentifier, :nameIdentifierScheme, :schemeUri] }, :name, :givenName, :familyName, :affiliation, :contributorType, :lang] },
       :identifiers,
       { identifiers: [:identifier, :identifierType] },
       :relatedIdentifiers,
diff --git a/spec/requests/dois_spec.rb b/spec/requests/dois_spec.rb
index 2866e3ea7..f41ded754 100644
--- a/spec/requests/dois_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/dois_spec.rb
@@ -1919,6 +1919,26 @@
       # end
     end
 
+    context 'update rightsList' do
+      let(:rights_list) { [{ "rights" => "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0", "rightsUri" => "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/", "lang" => "en"}] }
+      let(:update_attributes) do
+        {
+          "data" => {
+            "type" => "dois",
+            "attributes" => {
+              "rightsList" => rights_list
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      end
+
+      before { patch "/dois/#{doi.doi}", params: update_attributes.to_json, headers: headers } 
+
+      it 'updates the Doi' do
+        expect(json.dig('data', 'attributes', 'rightsList')).to eq(rights_list)
+      end
+    end
+
     context 'landing page' do
       let(:url) { "https://blog.datacite.org/re3data-science-europe/" }
       let(:xml) { Base64.strict_encode64(file_fixture('datacite.xml').read) }