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Digital and Audiovisual Productions Division
Interpretation and Cultural Programming Department
75058 Paris cedex 01 FRANCE
info@louvre.fr
Intellectual property
Website development
The general structure of this website is the exclusive property of the Public Establishment of the Musée du Louvre. Any reproduction, representation, in whole or in part, use, adaptation, provision, or modification by any process, any person, and any means whatsoever (particularly sales, marketing, rental, etc.) without the express authorisation of the museum, any authors or rightsholders is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of the French Intellectual Property Code.
Website Content
Under intellectual property law, the scientific, cultural, and educational content (including, but not limited to, texts, images, photographs, audio recordings and audiovisual and multimedia documents) of this website are the property of the Public Establishtment of the Musée du Louvre.
Consequently, any reproduction, representation, in whole or in part, use, adaptation, provision, or modification of this content by any process, any person, and any means whatsoever (particularly sales, marketing, rental, etc.) without the express authorization of the authors or rights holders is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of the French Intellectual Property Code.
Photographs
Photographs credited © Musée du Louvre / [...] are the exclusive property of the Musée du Louvre and are used by the Musée du Louvre with the permission of their authors or rightsholders.
Photographs credited © RMN, Musée du Louvre / [...] are the property of the RMN. Non-commercial re-use is authorised, provided the source and author are acknowledged.
For any commercial and/or editorial re-use of an image from the collections of the Louvre and Tuileries National Estate, the Musée Delacroix or from the staging of exhibitions and other cultural events organised by the Musée du Louvre, please contact the photography agency Réunion des Musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées (Rmn-Gp).
Trademarks and logos
The trademarks of the Musée du Louvre and its partners, as well as the logos shown on the site, are filed and registered with the INPI (French National Institute of Industrial Property) and are, as such, protected by industrial property law.
Any reproduction, in whole or in part, of these trademarks and/or logos made from elements of the website without the express permission of their owners is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of the French Intellectual Property Code.
Public sector information
The informative and programming content on this website is administrative public sector information under Articles L.321-1 and L.322-1 of the French Code of Relations Between the Public and the Administration. This information may be re-used, provided it is not altered, its meaning is not distorted, and mention is made of its sources and the date of its last update.
Rights to the administrative public sector information are not transferred to the re-user. The re-user benefits from a personal and non-exclusive right to re-use the administrative public sector information. Any person re-using public sector information in violation of the abovementioned provisions is liable to a fine by the Commission on Access to Administrative Documents (CADA in French), an independent body responsible for ensuring the freedom of access to administrative documents.
Hypertext links
The Musée du Louvre website (www.louvre.fr) authorises the use of hypertext links to its content provided that:
- deep linking is not used, i.e. pages from the Musée du Louvre website must not be embedded within pages on another site, but should be accessible with the opening of a new window.
- the source is mentioned when a hypertext link leads directly to the content.
The information is used only for personal, associative or professional reasons; all use for commercial or advertising purposes is strictly prohibited.
Authorisation shall not be granted to websites with content deemed offensive to human dignity, public order or public morals.
Liability
The public establishment of the Musée du Louvre uses all reasonable efforts to ensure the information on the website (www.louvre.fr) is as available, accurate, and up to date as possible, and reserves the right to make corrections with regard to the information at any time without prior notification. However, the public establishment of the Musée du Louvre cannot guarantee the availability, exactness, actuality, or completeness of the information presented. Use of the information available or provided on this website is the sole responsibility of the user.
The Musée du Louvre is not responsible for the content of these sites, and will not be held liable for any damage or injury resulting from them. Links to other sites are provided to users for convenience only.