Terms of Use
The texts and objects shared on the Inventing Europe website are the result of extensive research and consultations with scholars and curators of cultural heritage collections. Use of these materials is highly encouraged for educational or non-commercial purposes under the following conditions:
Tours may be freely shared with proper citation of author, title and url. A citation suggestion is given at the bottom of every exhibit text.
Inventing Europe does not hold the rights for any of the images or videos reproduced or embedded in the tours. Please consult the metadata for each image and contact the relevant rights holder to obtain permission to reproduce any of the images found here.
Image metadata has been provided by the image publisher.
Every reasonable effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyrighted images. We would be grateful to be notified of any errors or omissions in this process, so that we can take any necessary remedial action as quickly as possible.
The “What’s related?” section below the stories and objects within the various tours have their own copyrights. The pop-up for each object contains information on the accompanying rights. For reasons of clarifications, further down this page you find an explanation of the most frequent copyrights. The “What’s related?” section is courteously provided by the Europeana Foundation.
Copyright “What’s like this? on Europeana?”
Using digital cultural heritage material on the web is easy and has many advantages from the perspective of traceability and usability. This does not mean that these materials are available to use freely in your assignments and research. This section explains various copyrights that are used for digital cultural heritage material on the web, and that is available through our “What’s related on Europeana” section below the stories and objects in the various tours.
The Europeana Foundation distinguishes between three levels of copyrights:
- yes, with attribution
- yes, with restrictions
- only with permission
Within these three categories there exist a number of different copyright levels. Via the “What’s related” section you find objects that all have their own copyrights. It is up to you, as users of our website, to explore these copyrights and use or not use these objects accordingly.
Here you find an explanation of the different copyrights within the three described categories. Please note that copyrights can also be unknown. At the bottom of this page you find an extra category describing what this means for re-use in your research and assignments.
Yes, with Attribution
Creative Commons Attribution
CC-BY
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
CC-BY-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Public Domain
CC0
CC0 is the “no copyright reserved” option in the Creative Commons toolkit – it effectively means relinquishing all copyright and similar rights that you hold in a work and dedicating those rights to the public domain.
CC0 is a single purpose tool, designed to take on the dedication function of the former, deprecated Public Domain Dedication and Certification.
How effectively CC0 works will depend on the legal regime in which the work is used, but the tool is intended to effectively release rights even in jurisdictions where it is difficult to do so.
Note that CC0 is a three-tier instrument. We recognize that a waiver may not be effective in some jurisdictions. CC0′s enforceability is not solely dependent on the waiver. The fall back public license — the second tier — is similar to our Attribution-only license but without the attribution requirement. The third tier is a non-assertion by the copyright holder that even if the waiver and license do not operate as intended, the copyright holder will not take any actions that prevent a user of the work from exercising rights consistent with the intention of the copyright holder as expressed in CC0.
For detailed information, see the CC0 FAQ.
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0
Public Domain Marked
When a work is in the public domain, it is free for use by anyone for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Public domain is the purest form of open/free, since no one owns or controls the material in any way.
Works that are in the public domain in one legal jurisdiction are not necessarily in the public domain worldwide. Copyright laws differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, both in duration of protection and what constitutes copyrightable subject matter. For example a US Government work clearly in the public domain in the United States may or may not be free of copyright restrictions and in the public domain in other jurisdiction. At present, one of the only ways to be certain that a particular work is in the public domain worldwide is to see if the copyright holder has dedicated all rights to the work to the public domain by using CC0.
Creative Commons licenses do not affect the status of a work that is in the public domain under applicable law, because our licenses only apply to works that are protected by copyright. For more information, see our Licensing Guide to what you should know before you license a work using CC licenses.
Find out more about CC’s public domain tools, and learn more about Public Domain.
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_domain
Yes, with Restrictions
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial
CC-BY-NC
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution NoDerivatives
CC-BY-ND
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike
CC-BY-NC-SA
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives
CC-BY-NC-ND
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Out of Copyright – non commercial re-use
Out of copyright – non commercial re-use
This object has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the object by third parties.
You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the digital object, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the Data Provider.
In some jurisdictions moral rights of the author may persist beyond the term of copyright. These rights may include the right to be identified as the author and the right to object to derogatory treatments.
When using this digital object please respect Europeana’s usage Guidelines for public domain works.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/out-of-copyright-non-commercial.html
Only with Permission
Rights Reserved – Free Access
Rights Reserved – Free Access
This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by the organization giving access to it.
Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to make any of the acts permitted by your national copyright and related rights act, including browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes.
All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions attached to the digital object.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/rr-f.html
Rights Reserved – Restricted Access
Rights Reserved – Restricted Access
This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. This item is only accessible through registration or some other form of controlled access and subject to the licensing conditions set by the organization giving access to it.
Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to make any of the acts permitted by your national copyright and related rights act, including browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes.
All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions attached to the work.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/rr-r.html
Rights Reserved – Paid Access
Rights Reserved – Paid Access
This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is only accessible against payment of a fee and its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by the organization giving access to it.
Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to make any of the acts permitted by your national copyright and related rights act, including browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes.
All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions attached to the digital object.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/rr-p.html
Unknown Copyrights
Unknown copyright status
The copyright and related rights status of this digital object is unknown. Please refer to the website of the Data Provider for additional information.
You are free to make any of the acts permitted by your national copyright and related rights act, including browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes.
http://www.europeana.eu/rights/unknown/
Orphan Work
This item has been identified as an orphan work in the country of first publication and in line Directive 2012/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on certain permitted uses of orphan works.
For this item no rightholder(s) have been identified or, if one or more of them have been identified, none has been located despite a diligent search for the rightholders having been carried out.
If you have information about the identity or the location of the rightholder(s), please contact the Data Provider.
You are free to make any of the acts permitted by your national copyright and related rights act, including browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes.
