Copyright

This website is the copyright of the Australian War Memorial. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, you must not copy, adapt, publish, distribute or commercialise any material contained on this site without the permission of the Australian War Memorial.

Copyright and Memorial collection material

The majority of the images that appear on this website, including photographs, works of art and documents, and other material such as film and sound files, are taken from the National Collection of the Australian War Memorial. All of this material is subject to copyright protection.

Obtaining permission

Items from the National Collection sometimes display a “copyright status”. This is a term that gives an indication of whether copyright protection applies to the image, and accordingly whether permission should be sought prior to its use. A list of these terms are as follows:

Commonwealth of Australia copyright

This term describes material held in the National Collection, where the copyright protection period is still in force and the copyright owner is the Commonwealth Government.

This can also include Statutory Authorities and other semi-autonomous government agencies operating under their own Acts. This term does not describe material created by State or local Governments.

For permission to reproduce or publish this image in a way not prescribed under the fairdealing exceptions of theAustralian Copyright Act (1968) www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/, www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm#F please contact:

Attorney General's Department
Robert Garran Offices
National Circuit
Canberra ACT 2600
Telephone: (02) 6250 6200.

An on-line request form is available via the Department’s website: www.ag.gov.au/cc

AWM Copyright

This term describes material held in the National Collection, where the copyright protection period is still in force and the copyright owner is the Australian War Memorial.

For permission to reproduce or publish this image in a way not prescribed under the fairdealing exceptions of the Australian Copyright Act (1968) www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/, www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm#F please contact:

Retail and Online Sales
Australian War Memorial
GPO Box 345
Canberra ACT 2600
Telephone: (02) 6243 4542

AWM Licensed copyright

This term describes material held in the National Collection where the copyright protection period is still in force and the copyright owner is an individual, company or other party who has retained their copyright in the material but have licensed the Memorial to use the image for certain prescribed in-house purposes.

However, these licenses do not allow the Memorial to grant permission to members of the public and accordingly if you are seeking permission to reproduce or publish this image in a way not prescribed under the fairdealing exceptions of the Copyright Act (1968) www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/, www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm#F you will need to contact the individual copyright owners.  Retail and Online Sales staff may sometimes, but not always, be able to give you details of the copyright owner.

Retail and Online Sales
Australian War Memorial
GPO Box 345
Canberra ACT 2600
Telephone: (02) 6243 4542

Unlicensed copyright

This term describes material held in the National Collection where the copyright protection period is still in force and the copyright owner is an individual, company or other party who has retained their copyright in the material.

If you are seeking permission to reproduce or publish this image in a way not prescribed under under the fairdealing exceptions of the Australian Copyright Act (1968) www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/, www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm#F you will need to contact the individual copyright owners.  Retail and Online staff at the Australian War Memorial may sometimes, but not always, be able to furnish details of the copyright owner.

Retail and Online Sales
Australian War Memorial
GPO Box 345
Canberra ACT 2600
Telephone: (02) 6243 4542

Copyright unknown

This term describes material held in the National Collection where the copyright protection period is still in force and, the copyright owners are unknown. 

Due to the age of the National Collection, this term applies to a significant amount of material particularly material dating from the First and Second World Wars.

If you are seeking permission to reproduce or publish this image in a way not prescribed under the fairdealing exceptions of the Australian Copyright Act (1968) www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/, www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm#F
you may not be able to use the work.  Please contact the Memorial for further advice.

Retail and Online Sales
Australian War Memorial
GPO Box 345
Canberra ACT 2600
Telephone: (02) 6243 4542

Copyright unknown - orphaned work

This term describes material held in the National Collection where the copyright protection period is still in force and, the copyright owners are unknown and unlikely to ever be determined because the material is extremely old, anonymous, or there is little information on its origin.

Due to the age of the National Collection, this term applies to a significant amount of material, particularly material dating from the First and Second World Wars.

If you are seeking permission to reproduce or publish this image in a way not prescribed under the fairdealing exceptions of the Australian Copyright Act (1968) www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/, www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm#F . Please see the Australian Copyright Council’s information sheets on finding copyright owners, and orphaned works: www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm#O

Copyright expired - public domain

This term describes material held in the National Collection that is clearly out of the period of copyright protection.  Material that is out or beyond the period of copyright protection, is known as being in the “public domain”. 

You do not require permission to reproduce or publish this image.

In all other instances requests to use an image of an item from the memorial's National Collection should be directed to: