Playing or showing an audiovisual work (in its entirety) is permitted without permission, provided that the following conditions are met: Playing or showing the audiovisual work serves an educational purpose during a class/working group/lecture and is part of the education programme. The audiovisual work must be played/shown physically at the education institution itself. It has to be played/shown in the context of non-commercial education. The 'Beeld & Geluid op School' licence enables lecturers and students to use archived television, radio and film resources in an educational setting. Anyone who wants to reuse a work in another way, for example by...

Where a serious search for the rightsholder is unsuccessful, their work may not be used from a strictly legal point of view. Fortunately, the copyright exceptions sometimes apply to certain uses in education. If no exception applies, works for which the rightsholders can't be found (orphan works) are often used in practice. In that case, a disclaimer is added to the product or website that includes the orphan work. It states that the institution has made every effort to locate the rightsholders of the works used, but has not been successful (in all cases). Then the address the rightful rightsholders...

Collective management organisations manage the exploitation rights of certain groups of rightsholders. You can contact these rights organisations to quickly obtain permission for the use of several works by various creators for a fee.  They grant licences for the reuse of works at standard rates. These rates are lower for non-commercial educational institutions than for commercial parties. The most popular collective management organisations in the Netherlands are listed below:  Buma/Stemra manages the copyrights of composers, copywriters and publishers.  FilmService gives copyright permission for film screenings on behalf of film rights holders. FilmService and the VH have entered into an agreement...

If you want to reuse images offered by another party, you have to ensure that the provider owns all copyrights in the work. If you want to use this work in your own production with significant financial interests, it is advisable to ask the provider of the work for a so-called warranty declaration. In such a declaration, the provider declares that it owns the copyrights in the materials and/or that it indemnifies you against all claims others may assert against the materials.

Some websites contain film and photo files that can be reused without permission. The conditions for this are often clarified in a Creative Commons licence. Some repositories also allow free reuse for educational purposes. Always check what licence is associated with each individual work. More information Terms and conditions of use

Visit the Creative Commons website for an explanation of the various licences.

Both recording and downloading are regarded as reproduction. This requires the creator's permission and you have to pay them a fee. There are a number of exceptions, depending on the purpose of your copy. You can copy an entire work for your own personal use without permission (Articles 16b and 16c of the Dutch Copyright Act) as long as this copy is made from a legal source. You are already paying an indirect fee for this, the so-called home copying charge. It is important that a copy intended for your own study or personal use is not disclosed to the...

You can copy and show photos and (parts of) audio recordings and other works for education purposes subject to the conditions of the described exceptions for use in education. You may also download a work in its entirety for your own use. Downloading from illegal sources is not permitted, not even for personal use. More information Terms and conditions of use