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Commonwealth or State government owned photographs:
first published more than 50 years ago
means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint.
owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.
The United States copyright in this Australian image was restored by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994, currently 17 U.S.C. §104A, if it falls into one of the categories below. (These were works which were still in copyright in Australia on 1 January 1996, and thus remain in copyright in the US until at least 70 years after death of the author.) In addition, the work may be subject to a subsisting United States copyright if it was first published on or after 1923-01-01. Such images may only be used on Misplaced Pages if they fall under our fair use policy.
Type of material
Automatically under US copyright if ...
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Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: