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The main authority for Australian copyright law is the Copyright Act 1968 (“the Act”), which is a Commonwealth law and applies throughout every state in Australia. Under Australian law, there is no registration procedure of copyright and copyright protection is free. Copyright rights come into existence at the same time as someone creates something which is a type of material that copyright protects. For example, copyright is automatically created by writing down a story; typing up a poem; creating an artwork; shooting film footage; recording music and taking a photo. Copyright exists for 70 years after the death of an artist.
 * GENERAL COPYRIGHT **

The copyright in photographs lasts for the life of the creator plus 70 years. Except if photographs were taken prior to 1 January 1955, as their copyright has now expired. A photograph is protected by copyright automatically from the moment it is taken.
 * PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHERS & COPYRIGHT: **

==="I'd sketch the crowd walking towards Spencer Street station as I waited for a friend in a doorway near the corner of Elizabeth St.....I was thinking.....I used to be a clerk in an insurance company 200 meters up this street, and it was a secure life. Now I am an artist, with the courage to take risks......." John Brack===



=How can you re-contextualise an existing artwork or an old photo?=

Consider...........

 * ===Changing the clothing etc of the people===
 * ===Changing signage===
 * ===Use different colours===
 * ===Modernising the objects in the artworks===