Australian copyright notices edit
Australian image pre-1955, unpublished edit
  | Australian image in the Australian public domain – copyright expired This image, created in Australia before 1 January 1955, is in the Australian public domain because its term of copyright has expired. The Australian Government's advice on the Copyright Act 1968 ('Short Guide to Copyright', November 2016) states, on p. 11: "The term of copyright protection for photographs taken before 1955, regardless of whether the author has since died or is still alive, has expired".
Since the Wikimedia Foundation's servers are located in the United States, this notice must be accompanied by a statement of the basis for permitting the image to be published in that country. The statement follows.
Fair use in the United States of an image Publishing of this photograph in Wikimedia Commons is considered not to be an infringement of copyright in the United States because the four qualifying criteria specified by 17 U.S.C. §107 for fair use are satisfied as follows:
created in Australia before 1955
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Public domain – AU edit
| | This image, created in Australia before 1 January 1955, is in the Australian public domain because its term of copyright has expired. The Australian Government's advice on the Copyright Act 1968 ('Short Guide to Copyright', November 2016) states, on p. 11: "The term of copyright protection for photographs taken before 1955, regardless of whether the author has since died or is still alive, has expired". | |
| | Since the image entered the public domain in Australia before the US Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) date of 1 January 1996, it is also in the public domain in the United States in accordance with 17 U.S.C. [§ is inserted here]. | |
| | This image, created in Australia before 1 January 1955, is in the Australian public domain because its term of copyright has expired. The Australian Government's advice on the Copyright Act 1968 ('Short Guide to Copyright', November 2016) states, on p. 11: "The term of copyright protection for photographs taken before 1955, regardless of whether the author has since died or is still alive, has expired". Since the image entered the public domain in Australia before the US Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) date of 1 January 1996, it is also in the public domain in the United States in accordance with 17 U.S.C. [insert § here]. | |
| | Free use in the United States of an image Publishing of this photograph in Wikimedia Commons is considered not to be an infringement of copyright in the United States because the four qualifying criteria specified by 17 U.S.C. §107 for fair use are substantially met, as follows:
that an Australian government has licensed CC BY
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