I have not used any images on my website that have contravened copyright laws, as I was acutely aware that this website would be used as part of a university assessment, and did not want anything illegal on there that might get me in trouble!
Further, the text from Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet" that I used in my web page is not copyrighted for two reasons. The first I will discuss here, the second I will include in the below paragraph. Section 180 of the Australian Copyright Act of 1968 states that:
(b) where the work is published--subsists, or, if copyright in the work subsisted immediately before its first publication, continues to subsist, until the expiration of 50 years after the expiration of the calendar year in which the work was first published. (No Author, n.d.)
As the work was first published in 1923 (according to the front page of the hard copy of the book I have here), the copyright is now expired on that book, and thus I can freely use it on my web page.
In addition to the expiry of the copyright, I would also be allowed to use the text for the below reasons.
I would not breach copyright laws if I was to use the Curtin logo on my page, as it is falls into the "Fair Use" category of copyrighted material for educational purposes. This policy dictates that express permission from the copyright owner is not required provided that the purpose of the copying is for "research or study, criticisms or review". (No Author 2, n.d.)
No Author listed (n.d.)
Copyright Act 1968. Austlii.edu.au
Accessed 19/12/2008 from http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s180.html
No Author listed 2 (n.d.)
Copyright at Curtin. Curtin University
Accessed 19/12/2008 from http://copyright.curtin.edu.au/essentials.cfm
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