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Copyright of your material
Please read these notes carefully, especially where they deal with AME’s standard policy on copyright: it will be assumed that you agree with that policy unless you specify other conditions (which you are welcome to do).
The following notes are general in nature; they must not be taken as an authoritative guide to any particular circumstances. For further information on copyright, please contact the Australian Copyright Council, Suite 3, 245 Chalmers Street, Redfern NSW 2016; telephone (02) 9318 1788.
Copyright is the protection afforded to the creator of an original work under the Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968 and through reciprocal arrangements in other countries that are parties to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, or the Universal Copyright Convention.
A 1984 amendment to the Copyright Act specified that a table or compilation, expressed in words, figures or symbols, including those on magnetic medium, was included in the definition of a work.
Copyright is personal property that can be assigned (sold or given away) either as a whole or as a part interest. The owner can license someone to use it for a specified period or purpose.
Copyright in a literary work (which includes model engineering articles, tables, etc.) exists from the date of publication until fifty years after the creator’s death, or fifty years after publication if the author has died before publication. Copyright in a photograph exists for fifty years after publication.
Copyright protects the original form of expression in a work, but does not protect the ideas or information the work contains. To qualify for copyright in Australia, the work does not have to display “original” ideas, be inventive or of any particular level of quality. Copyright in Australia applies automatically the moment a work is recorded in some way: the work does not have to be published, and there are no registration procedures.
The first owner of a copyright in a work is its author. When the author’s creation of a work is not carried out as an employee, and the publisher is not a government agency, ownership of copyright can be as agreed by the author and publisher. Works prepared for AME by non-employee authors, artists and draftsmen come into this category. In keeping with these provisions, and in the absence of an individual arrangement (which must be a written contract), AME’s standard policy on its published works is that copyright is shared between Australian Model Engineering Pty Ltd and the following people, respectively:
The policy on graphical items is based on the fact that copyright protects the form of expression in a work, but does not protect the ideas or information the work contains.
If you want to negotiate a special arrangement on copyright that is different from the standard AME policy, or you have prepared artwork and want to retain or share copyright relating to its final form, please get in touch with the Managing Editor. Make sure you do this before we edit your article or process your artwork. Otherwise, we assume that you are happy with the standard arrangements described in these notes.
How we handle your item
For any further information, please feel free to contact the Managing Editor at:
Australian Model Engineering
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Telephone: (02) 6254 1641
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