The EUIPO Copyright Knowledge Centre has just published a new, dedicated corner on copyright for knowledge and cultural institutions, and IP4OS is one of the resources it draws on.

Aimed at museums, libraries, archives, schools, universities and research organisations, the new Copyright for Knowledge and Cultural Institutions corner brings together authoritative material on licensing, digitisation, and the use of protected and public-domain works, so these institutions can apply copyright rules with more confidence and legal certainty. Visitors can choose their community to find tailored resources:

1. Cultural Heritage Professionals - museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual heritage institutions

2. Educators - teachers, schools, and vocational and higher education institutions

3. Researchers - universities, research centres and research staff

The corner builds on the European Commission's copyright awareness campaign for public interest institutions, which ran from January 2025 to February 2026 with EUIPO's support, and it explicitly draws on resources from the IP4OS project which develops practical guidance to help researchers, universities and public institutions manage IP in an open-science environment. It also incorporates selected material from Europeana, the EU's digital cultural heritage platform.

Explore the Copyright for Knowledge and Cultural Institutions.