Ariadna Matas

Community & Partner Engagement

Policy Advisor Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL

Ariadna contributes to the development and management of policies and frameworks that govern the sharing and opening up of data from the cultural heritage sector.
Ariadna also contributes to efforts to build the capacity of cultural heritage professionals to empower them to deal with copyright and other relevant legal and contractual aspects when sharing digital cultural heritage online and making it available for reuse.
Ariadna studied Law and has a Master's degree in Intellectual Property Law.

Ariadna supports and coordinates the work of:

Europeana Copyright Community: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/europeana-copyright
Rights Statements Consortium: https://rightsstatements.org/en/

Ariadna is a member of:

Creative Commons Global Network Copyright Platform: https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/
NEMO's Working Group on Digitisation & IPR: https://www.ne-mo.org/about-us/working-groups/working-group-digitalisation-and-ipr.html
Libraries and IP group at the Spanish Federation of Library Associations: http://www.fesabid.org/bpi/grupo-bpi-bibliotecas-y-propiedad-intelectual
Rights Statements Consortium Statements and Implementation Working Groups: https://rightsstatements.org/en/about.html

News posts

Title:

Landschaft mit Eichen

Creator:

Martin von Molitor (Künstler_in)

Date:

1811

Institution:

Albertina

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 18 March 2024 Ariadna Matas

More out of commerce works available - but a long road ahead

Legal standards Copyright

The out of commerce works ‘legal solution’ removes the obligation for cultural heritage institutions to ‘clear copyright’, item by item, in materials that are not in commercial circulation. The positive results of such a system are starting to be visible but some challenges remain for it to be truly successful. Find out more about the state of play.

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Title:

Übungen an der Sprossenwand

Creator:

Hamann, Heinrich

Date:

1909

Institution:

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 22 November 2023 Ariadna Matas

Discover insights from the copyright office hours on rights on user-generated content

Legal standards Copyright

On 19 September, members of the Copyright Community joined an informal chat around the rights and permission that need to be managed when individuals contribute to cultural heritage data. In today’s post, we tell you about some of the thoughts and ideas that were shared during the session.

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Title:

Geology: various uncut gemstones, and the substrate in which they are found. Coloured lithograph.

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 6 September 2023 Ariadna Matas Hugo Manguinhas Maša Škrinjar

Enrichments policy for the common European data space for cultural heritage

Enrichment Data-space

The enrichments policy supports purposeful enrichment efforts that contribute to the objectives of the common European data space for cultural heritage.

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Title:

Geology: various uncut gemstones, and the substrate in which they are found. Coloured lithograph.

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 8 March 2023 Ariadna Matas Hugo Manguinhas Maša Škrinjar

We’re listening: share your thoughts about improving cultural heritage data

Enrichment

The Europeana Foundation, together with partners, has been conducting activities to enrich digital cultural heritage collections. We are working to define an enrichments policy that sets a vision and brings consistency across enrichment efforts in the data space. Read on to find out more and discover how you can share your thoughts and experiences.

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Title:

Jazzóra II. Budapesti Téli Tánctanfolyamon

Creator:

Tone Stojko szlovén fotóművész

Date:

1986

Institution:

Fortepan

Country:

Hungary

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 24 February 2023 Ariadna Matas Maarten Zeinstra Deborah De Angelis

Discover the review of the Orphan Works Directive

Legal standards Copyright Orphan-works

The Orphan Works Directive, adopted in 2012, sought to facilitate the making available online of materials whose rights holders are difficult to identify or locate. Find out about the results of a recent review of the Directive and the alternative solution available.

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Title:

[Brilliant Jazz Orchestrina]

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1930-1940

Institution:

Girona City Council

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 31 January 2023 Ariadna Matas

Data Governance for the common European data space for cultural heritage: Strategy and Plan

Legal standards Data-space

This strategy document describes the actions to iteratively and progressively develop an approach for the governance of data in the common European data space for cultural heritage.

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Title:

A number of East Indiamen off the Coast (The Mauritius and other East Indiamen Sailing out of the Marsdiep)

Date:

c.1600 - c.1630

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 20 January 2022 Ariadna Matas

Copyright directive series: progress in the directive transposition

Legal standards Copyright cdsm-series

The Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive aims to harmonise certain aspects of EU Member States’ copyright legislation, and has important provisions for digital cultural heritage. Our new series explores different aspects of how the Directive is being transposed across Europe. Find out what has happened so far and dive into some details at the Member State level.

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Title:

A board game with squares and numbers with the penalties, forfeits and rewards and instructions. Coloured lithograph.

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 7 June 2021 Ariadna Matas

A missed deadline: the state of play of the Copyright Directive

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Copyrightreform Member-states

About two years ago, the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive was adopted, obliging European Union Member States to ‘bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 7 June 2021’. On this date, we take a look at the progress of Member States, and at some of the policy choices they have made.

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Title:

Exterieur van de bibliotheek van de Humboldtuniversiteit te Berlijn

Date:

c.1890 - c.1910

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 2 March 2021 Ariadna Matas Shadi Ardalan

Recommendations on copyright and its role in the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector

Advocacy Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Digital-transformation Build-digital-capacity Germany

During the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Europeana held a conference to explore the copyright challenges the cultural heritage sector faces as it embraces its digital transformation. Read the report.

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Title:

Kvinnor sitter på en bänk invid ...

Creator:

Selim Björses

Date:

1936

Institution:

National Library of Finland

Country:

Finland

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 11 February 2021 Ariadna Matas

Copyright office hours: supporting each other with copyright challenges

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyrightcommunity Copyright Open-access support

The Europeana Copyright Community invites you to share your copyright challenges, inspiration and questions in a new, informal discussion forum, beginning 25 February 2021.

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Title:

Barn i folkdräkt springer på väg mot fotograf.

Creator:

Okänd

Date:

1930/1940

Institution:

Stiftelsen Nordiska museet

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 29 January 2021 Ariadna Matas Karin Glasemann

Copyright Community work plan 2021

Network Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyrightcommunity Copyright

The Europeana Impact Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's six specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2021.

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Title:

fotografi, bilder, påsiktsbild

Creator:

okänd

Date:

1913

Institution:

Göteborgs stadsmuseum

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 14 January 2021 Ariadna Matas

Celebrating a multilingual public domain

Network Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyrightcommunity Multilinguality Copyright Europeana-communicators Translation

Towards the end of 2020, OpenGLAM and the Europeana Copyright and Communicators communities organised two translation sprints to make key guidelines and articles about the public domain available to more people in their native languages. We look back on the sprints and share the translations.

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Title:

In the Morning Sun (Village Courtyard)

Creator:

Kövári-Kačmarik, Konštantín

Date:

1900/1920

Institution:

Slovak National Gallery

Country:

Slovakia

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 19 November 2020 Ariadna Matas

Evaluating the Orphan Works Directive

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Member-states Orphan-works

Eight years on from the adoption of the Orphan Works Directive, the European Commission has initiated a review of the Directive through a survey on its application. 87 institutions submitted their views, and today we tell you about Europeana’s response.

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Title:

Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin

Creator:

Graeb, Carl (1842-1892) (Maler) (Herstellung)

Date:

1844

Institution:

Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 28 October 2020 Ariadna Matas Shadi Ardalan

Copyright in the cultural heritage sector: outcomes of the German Presidency event

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Member-states Digital-transformation Presidency

Explore the main messages that came out of a two day Presidency Event on the role of copyright in the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector.

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Title:

Dona amb dos nens en braços

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1923/1936

Institution:

Ajuntament de Girona

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 25 September 2020 Ariadna Matas

Europeana Copyright 2020-2025

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Strategy-2020-2025

This document provides clarity on the objectives that Europeana works towards when it comes to copyright, aligned with the Europeana Strategy 2020-2025.

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Title:

Grup de noies i nenes

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1890/1920

Institution:

Ajuntament de Girona

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 25 September 2020 Ariadna Matas

Our copyright priorities throughout 2020-2025

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Build-digital-capacity Strategy-2020-2025 Strategy-in-motion

Europeana’s strategy for 2020-2025 imagines a cultural heritage sector powered by digital and a Europe powered by culture. We have identified what this means for copyright, and brought our plans together into a strategy for copyright 2020-2025.

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Title:

[Castellfollit de la Roca]

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1910/1920

Institution:

Ajuntament de Girona

Country:

Spaid

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 24 August 2020 Ariadna Matas Maša Škrinjar

Copyright when sharing data with Europeana - introducing a new webinar series

Data publication Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Rights-statements Copyright Publicdomain Aggregators-forum Webinars Webinar

We are excited to announce an upcoming series of webinars which aim to help cultural heritage institutions navigate the topic of copyright when submitting data to Europeana.

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Title:

[Olot] Celebració del ball de la sardana de corpus a la plaça Major d'Olot.

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

Spain

Institution:

Ajuntament de Girona

Country:

1910/1920

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 12 August 2020 Ariadna Matas

Transcriptions, subtitles and enrichments: sharing our copyright approach

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Annotations Rights-statements Copyright Enrichment

Europeana increasingly relies on content generated by users or machines that adds value to the cultural heritage data we share, and makes it more accessible and reusable. These projects raise many new questions, including ones related to copyright: what can we enrich and transcribe, and how do we label, or license, the results?

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Title:

Vulture Flying

Date:

1885 - 1886

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 28 July 2020 Ariadna Matas Maša Škrinjar

The state of play of copyright knowledge in cultural heritage institutions

Data publication Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright report

This report explores the challenges faced by institutions and professionals in relation to copyright in the cultural heritage sector.

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Title:

Harmonie

Date:

1833-1900

Institution:

National Library of the Netherlands

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 15 April 2020 Ariadna Matas

Libraries, archives and museums working together on copyright: the Dutch example

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Glam

The Dutch Copyright Working Group offers an example of how GLAM organisations can work together on copyright, and in this post Annemarie Beunen, copyright lawyer at the National Library of The Netherlands, and Maartje Hülsenbeck, copyright lawyer at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (co-chairs of the group) share some insights about how the group works.

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