Your work does not concern a technical product or production process.This implies that your work can be seen, read, or heard. Your work is original and personal, it cannot be similar to works of others.The Dutch Copyright Act only protects your work if it meets the following 3 conditions: Copyright is automatic, free-of-charge, and copyright protection applies internationally. You do not need to register or file your work. When does copyright apply?Ĭopyright exists from the moment you created your work. Copyright is laid down in the Dutch Copyright Act. For instance, you decide how others use, copy, or display your work. If you are an author or maker, you determine what happens with your work. The Dutch Copyright Act ( Auteurswet) automatically protects the copyright of works of literature, science, and art from the moment the work is created, on condition that the work in question is an original work.
