A disclaimer is a statement of the providers of a work declaring that they own the rights to the material and/or they indemnify another party against all claims that third parties may assert against the material.

A home copy is a photo, text or digital copy taken by someone for their own non-commercial use. This is permitted under the Dutch Copyright Act (Articles 16b and 16c). Under this act, you may make a copy of a work for your own personal use without permission, provided that the copy is made from a legal source. It is also important that the copy is intended for your own study or personal use and is not disclosed to anyone, for example by showing it in an educational setting. As soon as the personal copy is disclosed, it leaves the...

Web scraping uses software to automatically read, copy and store certain information on websites in a separate database. Sometimes web scraping can infringe a website's copyright. If the information on the website is protected by copyright, reproduction and disclosure of this information is an infringement. Web scraping may also be prohibited under database rights. If you want to start web scraping, it is therefore wise to check in advance whether the data you are targeting can be used freely. On some websites, this is described in the terms and conditions of use. You should therefore always read these terms and...

Journals, books and newspapers are often protected by copyright. Organisations in education, government and business can make copies of these publications, provided that they pay a reproduction right fee. This is an annual fixed fee paid via Stichting Reprorecht that benefits the creators of the copied works. More information Stichting Reprorecht Onderwijs

Publicly accessible libraries (and museums) may make a copy of lawfully obtained material to 'protect it from decay'. Artikel 16n of the Dutch Copyright Act specifies the conditions under which such a preservation copy can be made. It may be used if the reproduction is intended to preserve the work and a copy has to be made for that purpose. The copied work must be a permanent part of the collection.

Privacy by design means that privacy aspects are already taken into account during the development of products and services (such as information systems). For example, by taking extra (technical) measures during the process. The purpose of privacy by design is the optimisation of personal data security.

The preliminary advice from the APA Style experts (see How to cite ChatGPT) is to reference this in the same way as a computer program.This is explained in Dutch in the blog posts APAstaartje: ChatGPT and APAstaartje: AI-afbeeldingen.

Computer programs (software) are protected by copyright. Copying and distributing software is therefore not permitted without the copyright holder's permission. However, the copyright only applies to the bron code and/or object code as such. The code does not include the functionality, programming language and associated file formats. They are purely functional and are therefore not protected by copyright. As a programmer, you don't need to take any formal action to have your software protected by copyright. In that respect, there is no difference with books, articles, films and so on. Your copyright arises by operation of law. However, always be aware that...