culture.gov.au
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Copyright statement
© Commonwealth of Australia
The Commonwealth retains copyright in the site as a whole and all material on the site that is authored by the Commonwealth.
The Culture sector websites database seedlist of over 4,200 Australian culture websites does not meet the requirements of originality under the Copyright Act 1968 and is considered to be in the public domain.
The Australian Stories material, has been provided by a variety of Commonwealth, state, territory and local government agencies as well as private individuals and organisations.
Copyright in the material provided by non-Commonwealth agencies, private individuals or organisations belongs to those agencies, individuals or organisations.
The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts respects the rights of all copyright holders. Consequently, works that appear on this website do so with the consent of the artist/s or copyright holder. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information presented on this website is correct and up to date. If you have any information about any use of material which is not acknowledged then please contact us.
Subject to the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright Act 1968, you must not make any other use of this material unless you have permission to do so.
However, you may use any of the Commonwealth material on this website for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation for non-commercial purposes, provided that an appropriate acknowledgement is made (retaining this notice), and the material in not altered or subjected to derogatory treatment.
The Commonwealth material is not to be passed off as your own. While we encourage you to link to any part of this website, we advise against framing of any parts of the site without our permission.
Requests for copies of HTML files for the purpose of fair dealing, personal and non-commercial use of Commonwealth copyright material published on this website should be made to:
- Comments and Feedback page, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (http://www.environment.gov.au/about/contacts/index.html).
Or you can write to us at the following address:
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
Canberra
ACT 2601
Australia
Requests for any other than fair dealing, personal and non-commercial use of Commonwealth copyright material published on this website should be made to Commonwealth Copyright Administration (CAA):
Commonwealth Copyright Administration
Attorney-General's Department
3-5 National Circuit
BARTON ACT 2600
Or via the Commonwealth Copyright Administration website.
In cases where copyright is not the property of the Crown or the Commonwealth of Australia, you will need to contact the agency, individual or organisation involved and obtain in writing the consent of the copyright holder to reproduce the material.
You may want to contact copyright collecting agencies and information organisations such as:
- VISCOPY , the Visual Arts Collecting Society .
- Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) , representing authors, journalists, visual artists, surveyors, photographers and newspapers, magazine and book publishers.
- Australian Copyright Council , a not-for-profit organisation which provides information, advice and training about copyright in Australia.
The copyright law is very complex and constantly evolving. The information in this document is provided as guidance only and does not necessarily constitute expert or legal advice. If in doubt, always assume that a work is in copyright and seek legal advice before reproducing it.
The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts will try to assist you in determining the copyright status as well as finding the name and contact details of a copyright holder for works published on the site if the information is available in-house.
Referencing information
To reference a page from the Australian Stories please include the full URL, the title of the page and the words 'The Culture Portal'.
The following example is a reference for information from the Aviation Australian Story, viewed on the 1 July 2010:
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2010, Aviation, Culture Portal, viewed 1 July 2010, <http://culture.gov.au/articles/aviation/>.
