To make it easy for people to navigate and use our collections, data partners assign standardised rights information to the content they supply. Explore these pages to find guidance about rights statements and information on navigating copyright in the context of digital cultural heritage and Europeana.
Title: Imaginary Landscape with St. John on Patmos
Creator: Hans Bol
Date: 1564
Institution: Mauritshuis
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainGuidance to determine if and what rights exist in your collection items.
Title: Kystboerne drager vod i landingen
Creator: N.P. Mols
Date: 1898
Institution: Statens Museum for Kunst
Country: Denmark
CC0Information on how to identify rights statement for the data you share with Europeana.
Title: Interior of the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk in Antwerp
Institution: Mauritshuis
Public DomainThe list of our available rights statements, the related URIs and supporting information.
Creator: Hägg, Jacob
Date: 1885
Institution: Sjöhistoriska museet
Country: Sweden
Public DomainInformation on how to submit rights statements to Europeana.
An introduction to the Europeana Licensing Framework and Data Exchange Agreement
Title: Europeana Licencing Framework
Institution: Europeana
Country: The Netherlands
CC BY-SA
Title: The Artist's Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Blue Room
Creator: Anna Ancher
Date: 1909
Institution: Statens Museum for Kunst
Country: Denmark
CC0The Public Domain is the material from which society derives knowledge and fashions new cultural works. Having a healthy and thriving Public Domain is essential to the social and economic well-being of society.
Title: Kat bespiedt vogels bij een slapende hond
Date: 1831 - 1909
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainThe Rights Clearance Case Study Report outlines challenges cultural heritage organisations face when publishing out-of-commerce works online.
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
Public DomainEuropeana 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?
Title: Animal locomotion. Plate 627
Creator: Eadweard Muybridge
Date: 1887
Institution: Ajuntament de Girona
Country: Spain
Public DomainIn this post, we present some of the steps which Europeana will take to help data partners overcome challenges related to copyright in the cultural heritage sector, and share our report into copyright challenges for the sector.