Image:Watson and Smith.jpg

[edit] Summary

This image shows a photograph of Keith Watson and James MacCallum Smith, posing with the Western Australian petition for Secession on 17 December 1834.

The original photograph is part of the Watson collection of photographs of the Western Australian Secession Movement, and is held by the State Library of Western Australia. A digital image of the photograph was created by the State Library of Western Australia and is available from the Library Information Service of Western Australia (LISWA) website. The LISWA image includes an assertion of copyright 2002, 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.

[edit] Licensing

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.

• James MacCallum Smith
• Secessionism in Western Australia