Australia is a signatory to two international copyright conventions, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, and the Universal Copyright Convention. The Berne Convention provides that a work, created by an author in a country which is party to the convention is accorded the same protection in member countries.
CALIBAN'S END COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
I, Paul F Stewart, as the Author and Creator of the content on this site, DO NOT give permission for any of the literary content to be used in any other literary form or fashion, without my Permission.
IMAGES
Many of the images used in this project have been gathered from the public domain of the Internet and altered to suit the narrative contained on this site. The method for acquiring these images has been via a Creative Commons Search.
* The Attribution for pictures gathered in this way can be located in the Properties for each image (Firefox) or by hovering over the mouse over the image (Internet Explorer).
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* Any images on this site that are acknowledged in the Properties of the image (Firefox) as being originally obtained via a Creative Commons licence may be copied, distributed and dispayed elsewhere as long as the original author is given credit.
* Any images on this site that acknowledged in Properties of the image (Firefox) as being originally obtained via a Creative Commons licence may only alter, transform, or build upon this work, under a licence identical to this one.
* Any artwork or image not acknowledged in the Properties of the image (Firefox) as being originally obtained via a Creative Commons licence remains the artistic property of the author.
A search via Creative Commons finds photos, music, text, books, educational material etc. that is free to share or build upon utilizing Creative Commons enabled search services at Google, Yahoo!, and . *NB: A number of images used in this website have been altered so dramatically, or made from so many sources, that Attribution has not been applied as the relationship between source object(s) and finished object is lost/broken, or not deemed significant enough for Attribution to be applied.
A number of sourced images were tagged with the "Copyrighted free use" licence. Accordingly, these pictures do not have Attribution applied to them.
However, if an inadvertent breach of copyright has taken place, please inform the author immediately and the offending images will be removed.
What is copyright?
Copyright protects the expression of ideas. It safeguards literary works from being copied.
Copyright material is protected under the laws of other countries who are signatories to the international treaties, of which Australia is a member.
Copyright protection is provided under the Copyright Act .
Copyright doesn't protect you against independent creation of a similar work. Legal actions against infringement are complicated by the fact that a number of different copyrights may exist in some works - particularly films, broadcasts and multimedia products.
Copyright for literary works generally lasts 70 years from the year of the author's death or from the year of first publication after the author's death.
A number of changes were made to the Copyright Act in 2004 as part of the implementation of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA).
The Attorney-General's Department administers the Copyright Act 1968.
Information, Law and Human Rights Division, Copyright Law Branch, Attorney-General's Department
The Australian Copyright Council
Other relevant sites:
Australian Copyright Council
Attorney-General's Department
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Digital rights management, and digital and online IP (Aust. Govt.)
IP Australia