Copyright
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The State of New South Wales supports and encourages the reuse of its publicly funded information, and endorses the use of the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework (AusGOAL).
The material available on this website, social media channels and online newsletters contain information, data, documents, pages and images (‘online content’) that is prepared and owned by DCCEEW. This online content is protected by Crown Copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
Subject to the exceptions listed below, it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The legal code for the licence is available at Creative Commons.
Exceptions
The Creative Commons licence does not apply to:
- the Government Coat of Arms, New South Wales Government logo, or any other government-owned trademarks, logos and brands
- trade marks
- intellectual property (including copyright) owned by third parties including photographs, illustrations, artwork, oral recordings and maps
- personal information (e.g. photographs of people released for use in DCCEEW publishing and social media only)
- other materials specifically not provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
You must obtain permission from DCCEEW if you wish to:
- use any image or video content from DCCEEW websites or a publication distributed via these websites for any unrelated or commercial use
- charge others for access to the work
- include all or part of the work in advertising or in a product for sale or revenue
- modify the work
- use source code or software available as part of DCCEEW websites.
To request permission for these uses, please contact the NPWS website content team. Images and other material supplied via DCCEEW image library must be used according to the terms and conditions specified.
Attribution
DCCEEW asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner:
© State of New South Wales and Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) [Year of publication]
If you intend to use DCCEEW online content on another website, this should be done via a direct link to this website to ensure that the latest version is always displayed. This permission does not extend to copyright in content owned by others on this website or to web pages or other content linked from this website.
No circumvention of terms
You must check and comply with the licensing information for each piece of material that you wish to use. This may require you to contact us or the third-party copyright owner for permission to use the material. You may also use any material in accordance with rights you may have under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), for example under the fair dealing provisions or statutory licences.
Use of material in a way not permitted by this copyright notice may be an infringement of copyright. Infringing copyright may expose you to legal action by, and liability to, the copyright owner.
Wherever a third party holds copyright in material presented on this website, the copyright remains with that party. Their permission may be required to use the material and you should contact that party directly. We have made all reasonable efforts to:
- clearly label material where the copyright is owned by a third party, and
- ensure that the copyright owner has consented to the material being presented on this website.
As far as practicable, material with copyright owned by a third party will be clearly labelled. Excluded material can only be used under the specific terms of use attached to that material. If you want to use this material in a manner that is not covered by those specific terms of use, you must request permission from the copyright owner of the material. Please content the NPWS website content team for such requests.
Images and other material supplied via our image library must be used according to the terms and conditions specified.
Use of brands
As use of DCCEEW-owned trademarks, logos and brands often implies endorsement, these cannot be used without the express permission of the organisation. To request permission, please contact the NPWS website content team.
Social media channels
We may use social media channels for communicating with the public, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram pages, YouTube channels and blogs. Subject to the terms of use of the particular channels, and except where otherwise stated:
- you may use all material posted under the copyright terms above, and
- material posted by any person other than DCCEEW, such as public users of our social media channels, is deemed to be made available in accordance with any terms applicable to that social media channels.
For enquiries about reproduction, rights or re-use of information in our products and services, please complete the feedback form. Your request will be forwarded to the appropriate business area.
Databases
Databases (as distinct from data itself) and source code that are available via our websites are copyright to DCCEEW, and cannot be used without express permission of this organisation, or copyright owner where this is not DCCEEW. Unless noted otherwise, data provided via this website is available for use under the same copyright provisions for online content outlined above.