Commons:Stamps/Oceania

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This page gives overviews of copyright rules for stamps in different countries or territories of Oceania. It is "transcluded" from individual page sections giving the rules for each country or territory.

Countries of Oceania

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Australia

Australia Post claims copyright ownership of Australian stamps for 50 years from publication (http://www.caslon.com.au/ipguide24.htm). Stamps published before 1 January 1974 can be tagged with {{PD-Australia}}.

Threshold of originality

 Not OK for most logos. The level of originality required for copyright protection in Australia is very low. Images showing the en:Australian Aboriginal Flag were consistently deleted from Commons as an Australian court has ruled that the flag is copyrighted.[1] See the discussions in Category:Australian Aboriginal flag related deletion requests.


See also: Category:Stamps of Australia

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Fiji

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Kiribati

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See also: Category:Stamps of Kiribati

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Nauru

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New Zealand

Copyrighted

In New Zealand, the Crown Copyright is defined by Sections 2(1), 26 et 27 of the 1994 Copyright Act. It lasts 100 years, with exceptions. It protects the work created by a person employed or engaged by the Crown, Ministers of the Crown, offices of Parliament and government departments. See Wikipedia:Crown copyright.

According to this law, images of New Zealand stamps are in the public domain :

  • 50 years after issue for stamps issued before 31 December 1944 (Template:PD-NZ-50-years on the Wikipedia in English). Use {{PD-NZ-50-years}}. All stamps from 1944 and before are thus in the Public Domain.
  • 100 years after issue for stamps issued between 1 January 1945 and the 31 March 1987 by the New Zealand Post Office as a Department of the Government. No stamps from 1945 onward will therefore become public domain before 1 January 2045.
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Palau

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See also: Category:Stamps of Palau

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See also: Category:Stamps of Papua New Guinea

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Samoa

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Solomon Islands

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Tonga

The copyright situation is unclear.

The Post Office Act (1933, 1977) does not mention copyright.[2]The Copyright Acts 2002 states that,

  • For a collective work other than a work of applied art ... the economic and moral rights are protected for fifty years from the date on which the work was either made, first made available to the public, or first published, whichever date is the latest.[2002 Sec.18]
  • A "work of applied art" is an artistic creation with utilitarian functions or incorporated in a useful article, whether made by hand or produced on an industrial scale.[2002 Sec.2] The economic and moral rights are protected for twenty five years the making of the work.[2002 Sec.18]

Thus, any stamp published more than 50 years ago should be in the public domain.
See also: Category:Stamps of Tonga

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Tuvalu

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Vanuatu

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See also: Category:Stamps of Vanuatu

Other areas

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American Samoa

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United States#Stamps

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France#Stamps
See also: Category:Stamps of Clipperton Island

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Australia#Stamps

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Cook Islands

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Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France#Stamps
See also: Category:Stamps of French Polynesia

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Guam

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United States#Stamps

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Hawaii

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United States#Stamps
See also: Category:Stamps of Hawaii

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New Caledonia

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France#Stamps

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Niue

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See also: Category:Stamps of Niue

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Norfolk Island

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Australia#Stamps
See also: Category:Stamps of Norfolk Island

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United States#Stamps

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United Kingdom#Stamps

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Tokelau

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/New Zealand#Stamps

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France#Stamps

Partly

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Overseas France

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France#Stamps

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Indonesia

Public domain under Article 43(b) of the 2014 Copyright Law.

Please use {{PD-IDGov}} for images of Indonesian postal stamps. However, please note that it has not been determined if modifications or derivatives can be made to works enumerated in Article 43 (Please read the Commons discussion on the issue here).
See also: Category:Stamps of Indonesia

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/France#Stamps

Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/United States#Stamps

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  1. Harold Joseph Thomas v David George Brown & James Morrison Vallely Tennant [1997] FCA 215. Federal Court of Australia (9 April 1997).
  2. Tonga Consolidated Legislation: Post Office Act Acts 12 of 1933 and 29 of 1977. Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. Retrieved on 2019-03-16.