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Sources, the right of quotation and the public domain for those who research or write about art.

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26 guides

How to publish your first preprint in the humanities

How to publish a preprint in the humanities: journal policy, licence, Zenodo DOIs, SSRN, PhilArchive, ORCID and updating versions.

Reviewed on 27 September 2026
- digital infrastructure
- institutional validation
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How to read an image licence and credit it

A museum offering an image for download does not mean you can use it for anything. How to read the rights statement of each file and how to credit it properly.

Reviewed on 1 October 2026
- copyright
- artwork documentation
- research
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An image licence does not always cover the work depicted

Paying a stock image library for a photograph does not always authorise you to use what appears in it. The layers of rights in an image and what to check before publishing.

Reviewed on 1 October 2026
- copyright
- digital infrastructure
- art market
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Authorship and works made with AI under Spanish law

What Spanish law says about the authorship of works made with AI, where the line of human contribution lies and what to document in practice.

Verified on 27 September 2026
- art collecting
- generative AI
- ontology of art
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How to verify a citation an AI has given you

Five steps to check that a reference obtained from an AI assistant exists, that its details are correct and that the text actually says what is attributed to it.

Reviewed on 27 September 2026
- generative AI
- research
- institutional validation
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How Wikipedia works: notability, sources and conflict of interest

Why a Wikipedia article depends on independent sources rather than your career, why you should not write your own page and how to request a correction if one already exists.

Verified on 27 September 2026
- digital infrastructure
- research
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Requesting information from your local council: a guide to transparency in Andalusia

How to request public information from an Andalusian local council, what time limits apply, what administrative silence means and how to complain to the Transparency and Data Protection Council of Andalusia.

Verified on 27 September 2026
- cultural policy
- cultural work
- institutional validation
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What is art? A map of the debate for beginners

An introductory map of the debate on the definition of art, from Weitz, Danto, Dickie, Levinson and Gaut to the recent discussion about AI.

Reviewed on 27 September 2026
- generative AI
- ontology of art
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