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Copyright

By sharing your work online, you as a creator or cultural organization can reach a large and sometimes unexpected audience. A great opportunity, but also something that raises new questions. For example, about copyrights. How do you arrange this properly? DEN explains it to you and provides you with some practical tools for managing (online) copyrights.

What is copyright?

What exactly is copyright? Who holds copyright and how long does copyright last? What about making works available online? DEN explains it to you.

What is copyright?

Copyright inspiration and examples

Get inspired by these examples! Think of digital productions, making works from the public domain available online, or sharing with Creative Commons.
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Copyright in performing arts

Copyrights, licenses, contracts; it remains a specialized field. As a creator, curator, or programmer, this can be a major obstacle if you want to (digitally) reuse your own work or someone else's work.
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With this tool, find the right performance clause

In collaboration with the NAPK, DEN developed several model clauses for performance institutions for the digital reuse of audiovisual material. To easily find the right clause, we created this digital tool. With the model clauses, you can properly establish the rights for reuse in the contracts you make with partners. For example, creators, performing artists (dancers, musicians, etc.), and AV companies. Not there yet? First download the Copyright Step-by-Step Plan (opens in new tab) to see which steps you need to take.

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AI and copyright

The European AI law is here, and the discussion around AI is in full swing. An important aspect is copyright: who owns a work generated by AI? And what are the rules? Read on in these articles for the answers.

Share your work with Creative Commons

By sharing your work online, you create all kinds of new opportunities. A Creative Commons license gives you as a creator the freedom to handle your copyrights in a flexible way. We explain how it works.

Tool for checking copyrights

If you want to share or reuse the works of others, you have to deal with the copyrights of these creators. If a work is still under copyright, you are not allowed to copy, publish, or modify it without the creator's permission. How do you know if you can use something or not? By answering a few questions, you can discover whether and what rights apply to a particular work.

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