Copyright Yada

Can you use images from this website?

Unlike many public libraries and museums - custodians of heritage that is the property of everyone -  who believe they have the right to charge like wounded bulls for even personal or non-profit reproduction, newcastleONhunter.com grants you licence to re-publish images from this weblog under these conditions:

* Stealing means removing the watermark and/or claiming the image is yours.

** Commercial use means directly making money from my images by selling them or reproducing them in advertisements (unless you are advertising this blog ;0)

So, ‘commercial use’ excludes sites making income in other ways, like blogs or websites that display advertisements distinctly separate to articles containing the image.

In return we insist on a courtesy mention, but really would love a web link back to newcastleONhunter.com. The HTML code for doing that is:

<a href=http://newcastleonhunter.com title="Blog on Newcastle, Australia" target="_blank"> Image courtesy of NewcastleOnHunter.com </a>

You may vary the text displayed by the above code (" Image courtesy of NewcastleOnHunter.com ") to suit your page.

 

——-  Rant   ———-

I detest publicly-funded institutions managing public property yet believing they have the right to effect "user-pay" on such material, especially against those who wish only to bring these pictures off the shelves into public view, to non-commercially highlight or illustrate articles of historical interest.

And not insignificant fees, either:

Reproduction Fees - Internet
Pictures held by Local History section

Non-commercial up to   3 months    $35.00
                                   3-6 months   $49.50
                                   6-12 months $66.00

Well, excuse me for paying my taxes to build and maintain the library, then being "priced out of the market" by what I consider is policy both flawed and against the public good.

I am thus unable to use the historic material in exactly the way such a collection was  intended - for social and historic illumination and sharing.

Gladly, some Australian museums (and public utilities) are resisting this economically-fashionable but socially-corrosive and  ill-conceived monetisation of public infrastructure, such as the enlightened NSW State Library:

Unless otherwise stated, you may access, download, print, reproduce and distribute content on this website for individual or non-commercial use provided that the copyright ownership is acknowledged.

I fear the same Borg-like bean counters in NSW government who charge the people to enter their own national parks, or allow equity investors to build and then prevent free access to public highways, are closing in.