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Regarding your own content, copyright protection is free and automatic. It is not ideas, but their expression, that are protected by copyright law. The intention is that nobody should profit unfairly from the work of others, by stealing and reproducing their work, then passing it off as their own. Thus copyright protection provides an incentive for creators to continue to create new materials.
Australian Copyright law automatically protects intellectual property. This means that if you create a webpage, or upload a document or images, that are stored &/or published on the mc² server; you still own the copyright. It is not automatically assumed by mc² or group owners.
mc² does not claim ownership of the materials you provide. However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or otherwise submitting content, you are granting mc² permission to use it as appropriate, including publishing your name in connection with your submission. This includes the license rights for mc² to make it available to others, in accordance with the functionality of the mc² website.
Your work may be accessed by other members of the group, or, indeed, by the public [in the case of a "Public" group or webpage], but copyright is still held by the original author, so permission would need to be sought before anyone else can reproduce any work, which should still be attributed to the originator.
Note that mc² staff and group owners & moderators do, however, have a right to remove anything if necessary by law, or if it breaks the Code of Conduct.
Vicnet retains copyright of all of the mc² website that is directly created by its staff and contractors, e.g. photos, text of Help pages, mc² programming code etc. (excluding the contents of members individual webspace and communities, as referred to above).
Copyright of mc² training materials also resides with Vicnet. No portion may be reproduced or altered without written consent of Vicnet. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under copyright legislation, no part may be reproduced or used for any commercial purposes whatsoever.
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