Australian Museum Copyright

This website contains information, data, documents, pages, audio, video and images ('the material') prepared by the Australian Museum for the purposes of:

providing the public with information about the Australian Museum's public programs and services
furthering the Australian Museum's objective to propagate and increase the knowledge about the natural environment of Australia.

The material is protected by copyright under the Copyright Act (Cth) 1968 ['the Act'], and is owned either by the Australian Museum or by other copyright owners.

The Australian Museum is an NSW Government organisation operating under the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport (DCITHS). It supports and encourages the reuse of its publicly funded information, in line with the NSW Government’s Open Data Policy 2016.

This website contains information and media where copyright is held by the Australian Museum as well as other people or organisations. It also contains images that show indigenous cultural activities, cultural materials or people. This may be cultural content of First Nation communities within Australia, indigenous communities in the Pacific or indigenous communities around the world.

The Australian Museum also recognises the rights of indigenous communities to decide how their knowledge is communicated. Permission has been given to the Australian Museum to reproduce the indigenous oral stories, images and personal accounts on this website and for the associated licence to be applied.

You can refer to individual image captions for terms and conditions of use and copyright. We ask you to observe and follow any copyright or related information that may accompany the media on this site and retain that information if reproducing the material in any way. If copyright is owned by a person or organisation that is not the Australian Museum, you will need to seek permission from that person or organisation prior to using it.

The Australian Museum has made all reasonable efforts to locate the owners of copyright material in our information and media. Should anyone become aware that we have used material without permission, please contact us.

Journalists and media organisation representatives can contact our Communications team regarding image enquiries for promotional or news purposes.

Notice for Educational Institutions

The Act allows 10% of the number of words on this website to be reproduced and/or communicated by any educational institution for its education purposes provided that the educational institution (or the body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) under the Act.

For details of the CAL licence for educational institutions please contact:

Copyright Agency Limited
Level 15, 233 Castlereagh Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Telephone: (02) 9394 7600
Facsimile: (02) 9394 7601
Email: [email protected]

© Third Party

Materials for which the copyright is owned by others will be labelled in one of the following ways:

The Australian Museum has taken all reasonable efforts to ensure that materials, for which copyright belongs to others, have been reproduced on this website with the full consent of the copyright owners. Apart from any use permitted under the Act, no part of Third Party material on this website may be reproduced by any process without prior permission from that Third Party.

Disclaimer

In keeping with the NSW Government's commitment to encourage the availability and dissemination and exchange of information the Australian Museum is committed to the access of its information and resources. Our website enables easy access to a range of content and delivery mechanisms.

As much as it is able Australian Museum online content and code is compliant with protocols and standards for accessibility and usability in relation to the information which appears on its sites. While the Museum makes every effort to ensure that the information on its site is accurate, current and free from errors, some information may change between site updates.

Although we aim to ensure our site and those sites we link to are complete current, reliable and/or free from error, the Australian Museum cannot accept responsibility or liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense users might incur as a result of the use of, or reliance upon, the material which appears on its site or the linked sites. Users of this website are responsible for making their own assessment of the website content and should verify all content with their advisors. The Australian Museum does not necessarily endorse or support the views, opinions, standards or information expressed at the linked sites.

The links that appear on Australian Museum Online have been set up as an information source only to provide our web users with access to content related to ours. Although the Australian Museum makes every effort to review and assess the suitability of the linked sites, some material, which appears at those sites, may cause offence or upset to some visitors. The Australian Museum regrets but cannot take responsibility for any such offence or upset caused. Because of the nature of the Internet, and despite its best efforts, the Australian Museum makes no warranties that the information on its websites is free of infection by computer viruses, or other contaminations.