Image:Australian Paper Five Dollar Note Security Features.jpg

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A photograph of the watermark and metallic security strip of the Australian paper five dollar note, viewed from the obverse side. The image was made by taking a photograph of the note while it was backlit through a sheet of photocopying paper (to provide a background) with a desklamp.

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Copyright to the banknote itself is owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia. The Reserve Bank of Australia states "Subject to Sections 16 and 19 of the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981, the Bank will generally not raise objections to the use of note reproductions in advertising or other material." It also plainly states "Consent is not required for a representation that is not capable of misleading."[1]

Sections 16 and 19 of the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981 say that one is not allowed to deface currency and that one is not allowed to make a copy that is "capable of misleading a person into believing that it is that current paper money"[2]. Currency was not defaced for the purposes of making this image. This image is incapable of misleading a person into believing that it is that current paper money on the basis that most of the note is missing from the picture and the superposition of the two sides of the note makes it even clearer that the image is not a real note.

Consequently the copyright holder has stated that consent is not required for this image and it is free to be used on Wikipedia.

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  • (del) (cur) 04:49, 12 March 2007 . . Australian Dollar (Talk | contribs) . . 1652×1528 (913,264 bytes) (A photograph of the watermark and metallic security strip of the Australian paper five dollar note, viewed from the obverse side. The image was made by taking a photograph of the note while it was backlit through a sheet of photocopying paper (to provide)

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