autores.uy is an author's
database
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, created and maintained by the
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
an chapter of
Creative Commons, with the support and collaboration of the
Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay, the
Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo de Uruguay and the
National Museum of Visual Arts of Uruguay. It has been declared of cultural interest by the
Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay. Its main goal is to provide information regarding the copyright status of Uruguayan authors to identify whose works are in the
Public Domain
The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because those rights have expired, ...
, and to digitize and socialize those works.
Likewise, the platform allows online access to written and visual works in the public domain.
, the database had more than 13,000 indexed authors.
References
External links
autores.uy
Online person databases
Information technology in Uruguay
Organizations established in 2015
2015 establishments in Uruguay
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