Talk:Advance Australia Fair

Information about this edition
Original edition	Advance Australia Fair ~ Official lyrics as the Australian National Anthem
Source	http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/symbols/docs/anthem_words.pdf
Contributor(s)	Jusjih
Level of progress	✰✰✰
Notes	Requiring permission for commercial use and potentially forbidding derivative works makes the copyright license resembling CC-BY-NC-ND. Please read http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/symbols/anthem.cfm#commercial for further information on copyright licensing.
Proofreaders	Jusjih

Re copyright

Repeating my comments from the Wikipedia talk page:

The Australian government claim to copyright on the lyrics strikes me as a load of crap. Copyright under international law is automatic, and this makes the applicability of "copyright" as a verb in these circumstances highly questionable. Slight differences in a text that is already in the public domain will fail the test of originality. Using slight changes to claim a new copyright is nothing short of gaming the system. Admittedly, I don't know how Australian courts have handled the question of originality, but that must certainly require something more than a simple notice on a government bureaucracy website. A government has the right to pass legislation about this, and that law could be proven with a simple link. This would be valid law in Australia, but meaningless elsewhere.

The above noted site under "Using the Australian National Anthem" says "While permission is not required to use, perform or record the Australian National Anthem for non-commercial purposes, there is a requirement to seek permission for commercial use of the Anthem. The words and music are in the public domain." This is inconsistent! They don’t seem to understand the meaning of "public domain". It only makes sense for us to treat this work as in the public domain under Canadian law. Eclecticology 23:22, 18 August 2012 (EDT)