Copyright statement for The Learning Place

You may access and post contributions to the Learning Place website by logging in with your Learning Place username and password, subject to the Acceptable use statement, Disclaimer, Copyright statement and Privacy statement.

Please read the Acceptable use statement, Disclaimer, Copyright statement and Privacy statement carefully before accessing the Learning Place website.

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Copyright in the Learning Place website ('the website'), including text, images, software, logos, icons, and code, is owned by or licensed to Department of Education and Training. Material procured from a third party may be the subject of copyright owned by that third party.

Subject to the next paragraph, when you post any material to the website, you agree that you grant Department of Education and Training a royalty-free and irrevocable licence to do any act comprised in the copyright in the material you post, including to:

reproduce it;

publish it;

perform it in public; or

communicate it to the public by transmitting it electronically or making it available for access online; and

authorise other users of the website to copy, download, print, transmit electronically or make the material available online for purposes of non-commercial, personal research or study.

Where you do not own the copyright in the material, you must ensure that the owner of those rights or person authorised to sublicense those rights, grants the above rights to the Department of Education and Training.

With the exception of content made available by The Learning Federation, you may copy, download, print or reproduce material on the website for non-commercial, personal research or educational purposes, on the condition that you:

do not modify it;

do not make or sell copies of it for commercial gain;

do not include it as part of any product or service that you create or distribute;

do not copy it onto your or anyone else’s website; and

do not infringe the moral rights of the creator of any material you post to the Learning Place, by ensuring that:

where it is reasonable to do so, you identify and correctly attribute the material to the person who created it;
the material is not falsely attributed to a person other than the person who created it without first obtaining the author’s written consent; and
the material is not distorted, mutilated, materially altered or otherwise dealt with such that the creator’s honour or reputation would be prejudiced without first obtaining the author’s written consent,

ensure that reproductions of material continue to bear any notices attached to or contained in the material; and

include the following statement with material taken from the website "Copyright in this work is owned by or licensed to the State of Queensland (acting through the Department of Education and Training) and is reproduced with its permission".

In relation to content made available by The Learning Federation, your rights are set out in the conditions of use supplied with that content.

For any other uses of the material on the website other than those permitted above, you must obtain the express permission of the Department of Education and Training.

Written requests for permission should be addressed to the:

Legal and Administrative Law Branch
Shared Services Directorate
Department of Education and Training
PO Box 33, Brisbane Albert Street Q 4002

Changes to Copyright statement

We may vary this copyright statement from time to time. We will notify you of these changes by publishing them on the Learning Place website – we will not separately notify you of these changes.

Queensland Government