Images, text and reuse

The register data

The records derive from the base Mérimée, published by the French Ministry of Culture under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab). That licence permits reuse, including commercial reuse, on condition that the source is attributed. Each record names it and links to the notice.

Wikidata is published under CC0 and carries no attribution requirement; we attribute it anyway.

The images

Every image comes from Wikimedia Commons and keeps the licence of that individual work. The photographer and the licence appear on the record. Licences differ from image to image — some require attribution, some require share-alike, some are public domain — and none of them is a blanket permission attached to Commons as a whole.

We do not copy photographs from estate agents' listings or from châteaux' own websites. Where a château's own site is the best source of a picture, we link to that site instead.

Our own text

The Journal, the Glossary and the editorial pages are our work. The composed opening sentences on the records are generated from register data and carry no separate claim.

If a work of yours is here

Write to info@meijerprojectontwikkeling.nl with the page and the work concerned. If the licence has been applied incorrectly we correct or remove it, and we do that first and discuss afterwards.

Reusing what we publish

The register data underneath remains open, and the Etalab licence travels with it. Our own editorial text does not. For substantial reuse of the archive as a compilation, write to us — there is a data licence in preparation, and we would rather agree something than discover a copy.