Image:John Garrett Bussell.jpg

This image is a studio portrain photo of ((1803–1875), early Western Australia settler, and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. It is thought to have been taken some time in the 1840s.

A digital image of the original photograph was created by the State Library of Western Australia and is available from the Library Information Service of Western Australia (LISWA) website here. The LISWA image includes an assertion of copyright 2001, but this assertion is incorrect: the image is in the public domain under both Australian and US copyright law. This digital image is a cropped version of the LISWA digital image that eliminates the incorrect copyright notice.

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This image was created in Australia and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G23 (Duration of copyright) (Sep 2005). Type of material Copyright has expired if ...  A  Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: taken or published prior to January 1, 1955  B  Photographs (except A): taken prior to January 1, 1955  C  Artistic works (except A & B): the creator died before January 1, 1955  D  Published editions1 (except A & B): first published more than 25 years ago  E  Commonwealth or State government owned2 photographs: first published more than 50 years ago 1 means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint. 2owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator. When using this template, please provide information of where the image was first published and who created it.

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