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Public domain

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Mozart, Chopin and the role of libraries and archives in the Public Domain on Public Domain Day 2025

Happy New Year and happy Public Domain Day!

01 Jan 2025
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A postcard featuring a coloured black and white photo of Queen Street, Brisbane, circa 1908. It includes a number of historic buildings, including the post office with a large clock in view.

A healthy and robust Public Domain needs libraries and archives

Happy Public Domain Day 2024! The Public Domain is the beneficiary of preservation and digitisation by libraries and archives. That is why we need more complete digitisation of Australia’s cultural collections.

01 Jan 2024
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Remote supply - information for libraries and archives during the COVID 19 shutdown

Answers when and how you can supply material remotely when your library is closed to the public.

24 Mar 2020
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Happy New Year! And happy Public Domain Day 2020!

What entered the public domain on 1 January 2020?

01 Jan 2020
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A photo of an art deco clock showing the time as 1:31. The clock features a white face with large black numbers and hour and minute hands.

Duration of copyright

The term of copyright is long, but it doesn't last forever.
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10 white question marks stenciled onto a grey-green wall. The grey-green paint is peeling revealing maroon paint underneath.

I have digitised a public domain photo from the collection, do I own copyright over the digitization?

Does digitising public domain works create a new work protected by copyright?
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A peeling sticker with a red circle and an x crossed over a blue background.

Material not protected by copyright

You might think copyright protects everything but there are some things that aren't protected.
  • Media Statements
A colour poster featuring a Caucasian, older woman with white hear, a white blouse and brown skirt. Her arms are outstretched like she is offering the viewer a hug. The woman is standing in front of a hanging Australian flag. Behind the woman and the flag is a rural landscape. Above the woman, and over the flag is the words, 'Women! help Australia's sons win the war', and below the woman in front of her skirt is the words 'Buy war loan bonds'.

2019 Australia’s Year of the Public Domain

Come 1 January millions of items from our national collections enter the public domain for the first time.

27 Dec 2018
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(Not so) happy Public Domain Day!

There’s not much to celebrate for Public Domain Day in Australia this year.

01 Jan 2015

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