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Maccassan Prau

This image was created in Australia and is now classified as being in the public domain because its term of copyright has now expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G23 (Duration of copyright) (Sep 2005), generally copyright has expired as follows:

Type of material		Copyright has expired if ...
A	Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown:	taken or published prior to 1955-01-01
B	Photographs (except A):	taken prior to 1955-01-01
C	Artistic works (except A & B):	the creator died before 1955-01-01
D	Published editions¹ (except A & B):	first published more than 25 years ago
E	Commonwealth or State government owned² photographs:	first published more than 50 years ago

¹means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint.
²owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.

This image was borrowed from the following website: http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/history/timeline.php?myOption=Before+the+Australian+Nation&currentRecord=2 ( click on the "archival image" button to retrieve the image: http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/displayWindow.php?mediaCode=img&id=13 )

The website lists the following source information, but it appears to be wrong (note the file size and dimensions). However, it is clear that the image is old — according to the article the image illustrates, the last Macassan prau left Arnhem Land in 1906.

A Maccassan prau, by Wonggo, East Arnham Land From "The Maccassar Story" Hercus, L & Sutton, P (eds), This is What Happened, Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986, p 122.

Courtesy of the artist's family, Museum of Victoria, and Mrs D.M.Thomson; from the Donald Thomson collection, on loan to the Museum of Victoria, from the University of Melbourne.

Created: unknown | Date Added: 10 March 2002

Subject: Education | Document Type: Archival Image

Source: Courtesy Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Format: jpg (JPEG Image) | File size: 24K | Length: 402x302