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This image or other work is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G023v19 (Duration of copyright) (January 2019).¹

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 1 January 1955
B	Photographs (except A):	taken prior to 1 January 1955
C	Artistic works (except A & B):	the creator died before 1 January 1955
D	Published editions2 (except A & B):	first published more than 25 years ago
E	Commonwealth, State or Territory owned3 photographs and engravings:	taken or published more than 50 years ago

¹ Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017 (Australian Government)

² means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint.

³ owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.

This non-U.S. work was published in 1929 or later, but is in the public domain in the United States because it was simultaneously published (within 30 days) in the U.S. and in its source country (Australia) and is in the public domain in the U.S. as a U.S. work (no copyright registered, or not renewed).

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For background information, see the explanations on Non-U.S. copyrights. Australian law states there is no copyright in photos taken before 1 January 1955. Therefore photo taken from old newspaper by unidentified photographer should be eligible to be published in Commons