Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Netherlands

Location of Netherlands

Summary

Countries, areas, and entities	Standard copyright term (based on authors' deaths)	Other copyright terms (based on publication and creation dates)	Copyright exemptions	Notes
Netherlands copyright overview ( Copyright law of the Netherlands)	70 p.m.a.: life + 70 years	Anonymous works: 70 years after publication (if author never disclosed). Covers anonymous/pseudonymous work, and corporate works with no listed natural author	Freedom of panorama: see COM:FOP#The Netherlands Government works: laws and legal judgements. See also full Netherlands copyright overview	Berne/UCC: yes Until year end: Yes
	{{PD-old-auto|author died 1943 or earlier}}	{{PD-EU-no author disclosure}}	{{FoP-Netherlands}} See also Category:PD Netherlands license tags	Edit /Netherlands-table

Netherlands Overview

Dutch laws and legal judgments are completely free of copyright (Article 11 of Dutch copyright law of 1912).

In principle all works communicated to the public by or on behalf of the public authorities (government) are not copyright protected in the Netherlands, unless the copyright has been reserved explicitly, either in a general manner by law, decree or ordinance, or in a specific case by a notice on the work itself or at the communication to the public. This is regulated in Article 15b of the Copyright Act of 1912. Entities like the Silicose Oud-mijnwerkers foundation can also be regarded as public authorities (AbRS 30 November 1995, JB 1995/337) and are not automatically copyright protected.

Works of individual authors enjoy copyright protection until 70 years after the 1st January following the author's death. The duration of the copyright belonging jointly to two or more persons in their capacity as co-authors of a work shall be calculated from 1 January of the year following the year of the death of the last surviving co-author. The copyright in a work of which the author has not been indicated or has not been indicated in such a way that his identity is beyond doubt shall, or a public institution, association, foundation or company is deemed the author, expires 70 years after 1 January of the year following that in which the work was first lawfully communicated to the public.

Note: Two public domain tags: Per Commons:Licensing, files on Commons must be in the public domain in both the source country and the United States, if they are not freely licensed. Public domain files always need both a US PD tag and a source-country PD tag (or a combined tag which explicitly covers both). URAA copyright restoration: Many files which are in the public domain in Netherlands are affected by the URAA restoration of US copyright. For files published anywhere in the world before 1 January 1923, {{PD-1923}} covers the US copyright. For all other cases, the URAA issue needs to be considered in more detail. New files which are affected by the URAA (i.e. have their US copyright restored) should not be uploaded to Commons. Old files are subject to review via Commons:WikiProject Public Domain/URAA review; cases known to be affected should be {{Not-PD-US-URAA}} and if possible moved to a Wikimedia project which permits fair use.

References

See also

• Threshold of originality: see Commons:TOO#Netherlands
• Freedom of panorama: see COM:FOP#Netherlands
• Category:PD Netherlands license tags

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