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.
Title: Summer Landscape from Košice
Creator: Čordák, Ľudovít
Date: 1920/1930
Institution: Slovak National Gallery
Country: Slovakia
Public DomainAnswers to frequently asked questions about rights statements in the context of sharing content with Europeana.
Information on how and why Europeana encourages you to open up collections for reuse.
Creator: Žabota, Ivan
Date: 1914
Institution: Slovak National Gallery
Country: Slovakia
Public Domain
Title: Europeana Licencing Framework
Institution: Europeana
Country: The Netherlands
CC BY-SAAn introduction to the Europeana Licensing Framework and Data Exchange Agreement
Title: The Artist's Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Blue Room
Creator: Anna Ancher
Date: 1909
Institution: Statens Museum for Kunst
Country: Denmark
CC0This policy document highlights the importance of the public domain by establishing Europeana’s views for a healthy public domain and recommendations for preserving its function.
We cultivate, curate and share knowledge around the topic of copyright in the cultural heritage sector.
Date: 1910
Institution: Stiftelsen Nordiska museet
Country: Sweden
Public Domain
Creator: Desconegut
Date: 1903
Institution: Ajuntament de Girona
Country: Spain
Public DomainThe inDICES project is hard at work carrying out research into the impact of digitisation and intellectual property regulations on cultural heritage institutions. Colleagues from the project share the findings of a recent analysis on copyright for cultural heritage institutions in different countries.
Title: Fractal pattern based on Julia set
Creator: Richard Wingate
Institution: Wellcome Collection
Country: United Kingdom
CC BYWith lowered barriers to access and the development of new practices for Artificial Intelligence (AI), it’s no surprise that AI-related activities in the cultural heritage sector are increasing - a topic in focus on this month on Europeana Pro. We hear from Creative Commons about the questions which AI raises for copyright and the approach that they are taking.
