AAO COPYRIGHT, CREDIT LINES and WWW use POLICIES
All the photographs accessible
from AAO images pages are copyright
The copyright of all photographs should be acknowledged whenever they
are reproduced. Our preferred credits are as follows.
The copyright of those images identified AAT (Anglo-Australian
Telescope) is the property of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board,
though the images are often for convenience credited © Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Credit line should read:
Copyright or © Anglo-Australian Observatory and
(optionally) Photograph by David Malin.
The copyright of those images identified
UKS (UK Schmidt Telescope) is shared with the
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
Credit line should read:
Copyright or © Anglo-Australian
Observatory/Royal Observatory, Edinburgh and (optionally)
Photograph from UK Schmidt plates by David Malin.
The copyright of images identifed INT (Isaac Newton Telescope) is
owned by the Institute de Astrofisicas de
Canarias and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Credit line should read:
Copyright or © IAC/RGO/Malin and (optionally) Photograph by David Malin.
The copyright of images identifed David Malin is owned by David Malin.
WWW uses
The pictures on this server with burned-in credit lines are available
free for use on bulletin boards or other WWW sites.
However, this requires the written permission of the
copyright holders, and is
subject to the following conditions:
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The images must not be used in any way that implies AAO endorsement of any
service, product, political party, religious belief etc.
- The copyright credit line should always be legible. If the image is
resized or cropped so that this is not true,then an adjacent on-screen credit
with the same wording is required.
- Please include a link to our images site,
HTTP://WWW.AAO.GOV.AU/images.html
- Copyright of images and caption pages text remains the property of the
AAO or David Malin and is not transferable to third parties.
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If you have not done so, let us have the URL of the site or page where the images are used.
Commercial uses
(All photographs are supplied without the burned-in
credit lines
The images supplied as prints, transparencies on CD-ROM or downloaded are
copyright. They must only be used in the context agreed in writing
between the recipient of these images and the Anglo-Australian
Observatory (AAO). They are not to be distributed to third parties
unless in the course of the agreed project or work, nor can they be
published or redistributed in any form without AAO permission.
Please contact Repro Permissions,
photo@aaoepp.aao.gov.au
for information on commercial reproduction rights
and conditions or David Malin dfm@aaoepp.aao.gov.au
for technical information.
Some technical information about the photographs is already available
on-line.
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