Commonwealth Copyright Administration
The Commonwealth Copyright Administration (CCA) within the Attorney-General’s Department has been disbanded and no longer provides copyright licences allowing members of the public to re-use Commonwealth Government copyright material.
In line with a recommendation of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Report, Commonwealth Government agencies are now required to release copyright public sector information under Creative Commons BY-licences or other open content licences, wherever possible.
If you are seeking to use Commonwealth of Australia copyright material, this material in many cases should be available for use under a Creative Commons BY licence. If you are unsure whether a BY licence applies to the specific material that you wish to use, we recommend that you contact the agency which produced that material or, if that agency no longer exists, the current agency with the relevant policy responsibility. The Australia.gov.au website contains links to the websites of each Government agency. Agencies will shortly be posting information about their copyright procedures on their websites.
For information about how Government agencies manage their intellectual property, refer to the Statement of Intellectual Property Principles for Australian Government Agencies. For further information about Creative Commons licences, see the Creative Commons website.