IPR Guidelines - A guide to understanding copyright when reusing cultural data

IPR Guidelines - A guide to understanding copyright when reusing cultural data

Kennisland has partnered with Collections Trust to address questions that partners of Europeana Food and Drink have about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Though primarily intended for the partners of the Europeana Food and Drink project, the context and flowcharts are useful for several types of reuse of cultural data. Ranging from e-books on historic locations, creating and sharing open educational materials or setting up a commercial photo service, all creative reuse needs to take IPR restrictions into account.

The publication aims to help decision makers to choose what types of data to use for what products. For example using specific Creative Commons licenses in products and incorporating user generated data legally. The publication contains introductions in the policies, laws and regulations that need to be considered when reusing cultural data.. It contains introductions in the policies, laws and regulations that need to be considered when reusing cultural data. It builds upon work, products and documents created and tested in other Europeana projects, such as Europeana Awareness, Europeana Sounds and Europeana Creative.

Lisette Kalshoven, Maarten Zeinstra (Kennisland)

In collaboration with: Collections Trust, Europeana Food and Drink

Kennisland

July 2015

Guide

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Cultural heritage