Image:PeatIslandNSWc1900.jpg

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Peat Island, Hawkesbury River, NSW, c.1900. Under Australian law, all photographs taken in Australia before 1955 are in the public domain. This image is in the public domain under both Australian copyright law and US copyright law.

Accessed from State Library of NSW website http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/1/pxe711/a116440h.jpg

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This image was created in Australia and is now classified as being in the public domain because its term of copyright has now expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G23 (Duration of copyright) (Sep 2005), generally copyright has expired as follows:

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 1955-01-01
B	Photographs (except A):	taken prior to 1955-01-01
C	Artistic works (except A & B):	the creator died before 1955-01-01
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

¹means 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.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:48, 26 April 2008	1,200×837 (144 KB)	Adam.J.W.C. (Talk \| contribs)	(reverted the proper historical version after realising my mistake)
	02:03, 26 April 2008	1,200×837 (170 KB)	Sarah (Talk \| contribs)	(restore earlier version. )
	01:12, 25 April 2008	1,200×837 (144 KB)	Dmod (Talk \| contribs)	(Reverted to version as of 02:24, 9 July 2007 - Leave historical photographs as is)
	08:19, 24 April 2008	1,200×837 (170 KB)	Adam.J.W.C. (Talk \| contribs)
	02:24, 9 July 2007	1,200×837 (144 KB)	Crico (Talk \| contribs)	(Peat Island, Hawkesbury River, NSW, c.1900. Under Australian law, all photographs taken in Australia before 1955 are in the public domain. This image is in the public domain under both Australian copyright law and US copyright law. Accessed from State Li)