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Creative Commons What is a CC licence? The CC licences provide a simple standardised way for individual creators, companies and institutions to share their work with others on flexible terms without infringing copyright. The licences allow users to reuse, remix and share the content legally. Offering your work under a Creative Commons licence does not mean giving up your copyright. It means permitting users to make use of your material in various ways, but only on certain conditions. The CC licences set out the uses that may lawfully be made of the copyright material and specifies the conditions which must be complied with when it is used. There are six standardised CC licences. Each of the CC licences grants certain baseline permissions to users in advance, authorising them to use the material, provided they comply with core conditions, as well as other general terms in the licence. The baseline permissions granted by the CC licences permit the materi

Fair Dealings versus Fair Use Australian Copyright law allows for “Fair Dealings” “Fair Dealings” is different to “Fair Use”, which is part of US Copyright Law “Fair Dealings” exceptions include: research or study; criticism or review; parody or satire; reporting news; or professional advice by a lawyer, patent attorney or trade marks attorney See the Fact Sheet: Fair Dealings - What can I copy without Permission See the Fact Sheet: General Exceptions to Copyright Research or Study You may use Copyright material for Research or Study so long as it is deemed “fair”. The Act deems the following “fair”: text or printed music from a hard copy edition of 10 or more pages: 10% of the number of pages; or one chapter, if the work is divided into chapters. For text material published in electronic form: 10% of the number of words; or one chapter, if the work is divided into chapters. See the Fact Sheet: Research or Study Criticism or Review People can

What is Copyright? In Australia, copyright law is contained in the Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968 (Copyright Act). A simple definition of copyright is that it is a bunch of rights in certain creative works such as text, artistic works, music, computer programs, sound recordings and films. The rights are granted exclusively to the copyright owner to reproduce the material, and for some material, the right to perform or show the work to the public. Copyright owners can prevent others from reproducing or communicating their work without their permission or may sell these rights to someone else. Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, styles or techniques. For example, copyright will not protect an idea for a film or book, but it will protect a script for the film or even a storyboard for the film. Copyright is a separate right to the property right in an object. For example, this means that the person may own a book or painting, but will not also own the copyright in