Rights and Licensing

Here are details of the various licenses / rights that exist in RDF resources:

Public Domain Mark

Public Domain Mark is a non-legally binding labelling of materials where the copyright has expired, or where the material is not protected by copyright. The Public Domain Mark is developed by Creative Commons and is used by Europeana, among others.

Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Used if the item would otherwise be protected by copyright, but the information manager wishes instead to waive all rights to the item and place it in the Public Domain.

Creative Commons

A content provider may use the six Creative Commons licenses where ”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)” is set as default. Read more about Creative Commons at www.creativecommons.org. The licenses are:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#by
Upon using you shall provide attribution to the creator.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#by-sa
Upon using you shall provide attribution to the creator, any derivation of the object must keep the same license.
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#by-nd
Upon using you shall provide attribution to the creator, you may not distribute modified versions of the object.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#by-nc
Upon using you shall provide attribution to the creator, you may not use the object for commercial purposes.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#by-nc-sa
Upon using you shall provide attribution to the creator, any derivation of the object must keep the same license, you may not use the object for commercial purposes.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#by-nc-nd
Upon using you shall provide attribution to the creator, you may not distribute modified versions of the object, you may not use the object for commercial purposes.

If you wish to use a version other than the default, you may give its URL as mediaLicenseUrl and/or itemLicense, for example: <mediaLicenseUrl rdf:resource=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/”/>

Rights reserved

It is also possible to supply metadata about objects that are fully protected by copyright. The following options are supported:

In Copyright (InC)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#inc
The object is in copyright.
In Copyright – EU Orphan Work (InC-EU-OW)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#inc-ow-eu
The object is in copyright, but the owner is unknown. Observe that to use this license, the object must be registered in the EUIPOs Orphan Works Database.
In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted (InC-EDU)
http://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/license#inc-edu
The object is in copyright, but can be used for educational purposes.