Merel Teunissen presents about legal aspects of content curation.

1. The legal aspects of content curation
case examples
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2. Almost all content on the internet is protected by copyright law.
Today I will discuss how you legally curate someone else’s
content.
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3. Five common ways to legally use copyrighted content
1. Permission author
2. Quotation right
3. Hyperlink and embedded link
4. Creative Commons
5. Public domain
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4. 1. Permission author
Use content only in that way you have permission for.
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5. 22tracks is author licensed by Dutch collecting society Buma/Stemra

6. 2. Quotation right
Requirements quote:
1. ‘Serious’ expressions
2. From a published source
3. Clearly indicate the source
4. Proportionality and functionality
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7. 2. Quotation right
1. A ‘serious’ expression
Only quote in ‘serious’ expressions.
For serious purposes.
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8. 2. Quotation right
2. From a published source
You can only quote from a published source.
Not from unlawfully published content.
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9. Unlawfully quoted content. Photo was never published by Playboy.

10. 2. Quotation right
3. Clearly indicate the source
Clearly indicate the source including the authors name
(as far as reasonably possible)
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11. Lawfully indicated source on 101cookbooks.com

12. 2. Quotation right
4. Proportionality and functionality
Proportional - you can’t quote more than necessary.
Functional - the quote has to be relevant to the context of
the text.
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13. Quote: not proportional and functional

14. Quote: proportional and functional

15. Five common ways to legally use copyrighted content
1. Permission author
2. Quotation right
3. Hyperlink and embedded link
4. Creative Commons
5. Public domain
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16. 3. Hyperlink and embedded link
The content was placed on a freely accessible website.
Hyperlink - allow users to click their way from webpage
to webpage.
Embedded link - allow users to publish copyrighted content
by the use of framing technology.
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17. Curated content via hyperlinks.

18. Curated content via embedded links.

19. 4. Creative Commons
A copyright license system which provides authors an easy
way to give the public permission to share and publish their
content on its own conditions.
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20. search.creativecommons.org

21. unsplash.com - content licensed under Creative Commons

22. 5. Public domain
The duration of a copyright is 70 years after the death of the
author. When these 70 years have passed the content is free
to the public domain.
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23. Rijksstudio by Rijksmuseum

24. IN SUMMARY
Five common ways to legally use copyrighted content
1. Permission author
2. Quotation right
3. Hyperlink and embedded link
4. Creative Commons
5. Public domain
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25. Questions? Need advice?
Merel Teunissen
teunissen@vwsadvocaten.nl
020 675 88 21
06 246 058 46