Terms of Service

These terms cover your use of arhivaumetnica.org, run by Arhiva Balkanskih Umetnica (ABU). By browsing the site, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

Using this site

ABU is a digital archive dedicated to documentation and education. As a visitor, you're free to browse and search the content, and you may reference individual records for personal, educational, or research purposes. Please don't use the site in a way that disrupts it or attempts to access it through means other than the interface we provide.

ABU's own content

Text, research, biographies, and the structure and compilation of this archive are ABU's own work and are © ABU unless otherwise noted. Please contact us before republishing our written content elsewhere. This is separate from the copyright relating to the individual works of the artists included in the database. The materials the archive draws on (books, articles, catalogues, photographs and other third-party works) remain with their authors; ABU's rights cover its own texts and its selection, arrangement and presentation of that material.

Database rights

The compilation, structure, verification, and presentation of information within Arhiva Balkanskih Umetnica's (ABU's) database is protected by the database maker's right under Serbian law (Zakon o autorskom i srodnim pravima, Arts. 137–147) and the EU Database Directive 96/9/EC (sui generis database right). This protection lasts 15 years from completion of the database, renewed with each substantial new investment in its contents.

This protects ABU's original compilation and metadata against extraction or re-utilization of a substantial part of the database's contents. By itself it does not give ABU rights over the artworks and third-party materials shown or cited in the archive; those remain under their own legal status. It does not reduce ABU's rights in its own texts, photographs, illustrations and designs.

This right does not restrict normal, good-faith use of the site by visitors, such as browsing, searching, and referencing individual records. It is intended to prevent large-scale copying or re-publishing of ABU's compiled database as a whole (or a substantial part of it) without permission.

Accuracy of information

ABU is an ongoing research project, run and maintained by a small team. Content is preceded by detailed research, but records may be incomplete, outdated, or contain errors. If you plan to rely on any information in the archive, verify it independently or contact us. Content is provided "as is," without warranty of completeness or accuracy.

To ask for a correction or for content to be removed, see Rights & Corrections.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the archive and its database grow. The current version will always be posted on this page.

Governing law & contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Serbia, where ABU is based. Questions about these terms can be sent to arhiva.umetnica@proton.me.