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© Commonwealth of Australia
The material available through the Culture and Recreation Portal site 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 Commonwealth retains copyright in the site as a whole and all material on the site that is authored by the Commonwealth.
The Culture and Recreation Portal 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 site 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 the Culture and Recreation site, we advise against framing of any parts of the site without our permission.
Requests for any other than fair dealing, personal and non-commercial use of Commonwealth copyright material published on the Culture and Recreation Portal should be made to Commonwealth Copyright Administration (CAA):
Commonwealth Copyright Administration
Copyright Law Branch
Attorney-General's Department
Robert Garran Offices
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 Culture and Recreation Portal 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. For more information, please contact the editor.
