List of definitions
Closed educational material
Material specially made for education where the right of exploitation lies with the owner. The author always retains his moral rights.
Copyrighted
All rights are reserved; the owner/author of the work has not set conditions for re-use of the work. Permission is required from the copyright holder.
Copyright owner
The owner of an original 'work of literature, art or science'.
Creative Commons license
With a Creative Commons license you retain all your rights, but you give others permission to distribute your work, share it with others, or even edit it under some licenses. Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean that you give up your copyrights. See also Creative Commons webpage.
Digital Learning Environment (DLE)
Environments for which you need authorized access.
For TU Delft this is Brightspace.
Exploitation rights
The exclusive right to make the work public, the exclusive right to reproduce it and the exclusive right to distribute it. Exploitation/economic rights can be transferred by the author, e.g. to a publisher.
Economic rights
The exclusive right to make the work public, the exclusive right to reproduce it and the exclusive right to distribute it. Economic/exploitation rights can be transferred by the author, e.g. to a publisher.
Moral rights
Moral rights/personality rights are rights exclusively connected to the author of the work. These rights are:
- Right to be credited.
- Right to oppose any change to the work by someone else.
- Right to oppose a change that is detrimental to the author’s reputation.
- Right to oppose the publication of the work under a name other than that of the author.
Multimedia
The term multimedia is used for images, pictures, photos, videos, movies, photos with sculptures, music, everything related to audiovisual works.
Open Educational Environment
Environment to which everyone has access.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Material specially made for education in which the owner has indicated how the material may be used by third parties under a Creative Commons license. See also Open Educational Resources webpage TU Delft Library.
Open
Re-use of works can be done by following the license conditions; no permission is needed.
Own work
You are the author of an original work that is perceptible to the senses. The term ‘original’ means that the work is not derived completely from the work of others. Additionally, the term ‘perceptible to the senses’ means that the work can be seen, read or heard.
Personality rights
Moral rights/personality rights are rights exclusively connected to the author of the work. These rights are:
- Right to be credited.
- Right to oppose any change to the work by someone else.
- Right to oppose a change that is detrimental to the author’s reputation.
- Right to oppose the publication of the work under a name other than that of the author.
Portrait
A person is recognizably depicted. This does not always have to be the face; it can also be, for example, a recognizable posture or environment.
Portrait rights
Portrait right is the right of an individual to oppose any publication of their portrait. The law recognizes two types of portrait rights: commissioned and non-commissioned portraits. For more information, please check Article 21 Copyright Act.
Post-print
The version of an academic article or other publication after all the peer review changes are in place but before publisher formatting.
Pre-print
The version of an academic article or other publication before it has been submitted for peer review.
Public domain
- Copyright has been waived. Someone can indicate that his work is in the public domain by giving up their copyright.
- A work can also be in the public domain if copyright has expired (for the Netherlands >70 years after the author’s year of death).
There are no restrictions on re-use of such materials.
Published research
Books, articles, reports etc. fall under the published research category, in which its primary purpose is to disseminate research results instead of having a purely educational goal.
Publisher's version
Official version of an academic article or other publication posted on a publisher’s website and formatted accordingly. The work acquires the publisher’s preferred layout which means the work has the “stamp” of the publisher.
Sherpa Romeo
Online database of the open access policy of publishers in which one can find which version of an article may be used/published and where it may be published, including the terms and conditions applicable to the article.
Stichting UVO / UVO Foundation
Publisher Organization for Educational Licensing Foundation. See also Stichting UVO website.
