LibGuides: Copyright: Online Resources

Quicklinks

Australian Copyright Council - Find an Answer
The Australian Copyright Council is an independent, non-profit organisation. Use their website to find the answer for your copyright questions.
Australian Libraries Copyright Committee - Fact Sheets
A collection of useful resources to help answer your copyright questions.
Smartcopying - The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE
This website provides factsheets and FAQs for copyright and how it affects TAFE.
OneMusic Australia
APRA AMCOS and PPCA amalgamated in 2019 to become OneMusic Australia. One Music is now responsible for licencing the works of music creators for use in different places of business, including educational institutions like TAFE. Find out what they do and what licence(s) a business needs to have music in the background, office or for events.

Creative Commons is a form of license that makes the intellectual property it covers easy to use.

There are six types of Creative Commons licenses which give different rights to owners and users. You can read about them here .

You need to attribute Creative Commons materials. Aim for : Creator, Title , URL, License Type, License URL . You can find a useful guide here

Creative Commons images are easy to find. Try these different Creative Commons searches:

http://pixabay.com/en/dog-pug-puppy-861141/

If something is in the public domain it means that it is no longer in copyright.

Thus we can use these resources easily for no cost and with little risk

Wikipedia have a great list public domain images and sounds