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Legal notice
The Estate and its associated entities. The Bram Stoker Estate’s activities involve three entities: Bram Stoker Estate Limited and Bram Stoker Limited in the United Kingdom, and Bram Stoker LLC in the United States. Each entity’s involvement depends on the project and the arrangements agreed.
Accuracy. The Bram Stoker Estate takes care to keep the information on this website accurate. We cannot guarantee that it is complete, correct or up to date. Research is ongoing, and we welcome corrections through the Contact page.
Links. Links to other websites are there for convenience. A link does not mean that the Estate endorses that website, its content, its products or its organisers. The Estate is not responsible for other websites. Listing an event on this website is not an endorsement of the event.
Bram Stoker’s works. The original published text of Dracula is in the public domain in the UK, Ireland, the US and many other countries. A modern translation, edition, illustration, adaptation or recording may carry separate rights. Some works may still be protected. Certain previously unpublished works can remain protected under UK transitional rules until 31 December 2039. These rules can apply to literary, dramatic and musical works and engravings by authors who died before 1969; publication history and other conditions matter. See the UK Intellectual Property Office guidance on copyright duration. Check the particular work, its publication history, your intended use and the country. The Estate can help direct an enquiry.
Trade marks and endorsement. A work being in the public domain does not by itself give permission to use a trade mark related to Bram Stoker and his works. Trade mark protection depends on the registration, the country, the classes and the proposed use. Contact the Estate about commercial branding, and confirm the relevant rights before use.
Images. Credits show which photographs the Estate owns and which images are supplied under licence or reproduced from other collections. An object owned by the family and a photograph of it may have different rights. Event organisers keep the rights in their submissions and give the Estate the agreed permission to publish them.
Rights and credits
For copyright, credits and reproduction requests, see Rights and credits on Using Bram’s work.
Images submitted with event listings
When you submit an image with an event listing, you keep its copyright. You confirm that you own the image or have the owner’s permission to submit it, that people who can be identified in it have agreed to its use, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights. You give the Bram Stoker Estate a free, non-exclusive, worldwide and permanent licence to use the image with your event listing and elsewhere on the Estate’s website, social media, newsletters, printed material and promotion relating to Bram Stoker and his legacy, including after your event has ended. The Estate may resize or crop the image for display. We will credit you or the photographer where practical, using the credit you provide. The Estate will not sell the image or license it to others as a stand-alone image. You can ask us to stop using an image at any time through the Contact page. We will remove it from future use, but we cannot recall material already printed or shared.