The material in this website is copyright. All rights are reserved, apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968.
The material in this website may be downloaded, displayed, printed and reproduced in unaltered form for personal and non-commercial use.
Bona fide news media organisations only may republish archived materials from this website for reporting news, subject to the following conditions:
- Commonwealth copyright and Department of Defence origin must be appropriately acknowledged with status at least equal to other credits.
- Users may not purport to license or assign copyright to other parties; and may not charge customers for intellectual rights; although they may charge for their production, research and retrieval, and distribution components of republishing.
- Material from this website must not be used in advertising, displays, other websites, or in any public or mass media context other than reporting news, without specific written authorisation from the Department of Defence.
The material from this website cannot be used:
- to imply an endorsement from or an association with Defence without written permission from the Department of Defence
- for political purposes or in a way contrary to Defence’s apolitical standing.
Imagery
The Defence Imagery website is a public-facing portal used to publish official photographs and videos. All imagery is subject to Commonwealth of Australia copyright.
Imagery is published on Defence official online channels, including social media, YouTube, and all other Defence platforms, for the primary purpose of promoting Defence activities to the wider public.
Personal and non-commercial use
For personal and non-commercial use, Defence imagery may be downloaded from the Defence Imagery website to be displayed, printed and reproduced in unaltered form, under a Creative Commons (CC) licence (CC BY-NC-ND) or as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968.
Bona fide media organisations are permitted to use Defence imagery for the purpose of reporting news without seeking individual permission, providing they credit their source of the content.
Commercial use
For Defence imagery to be used by an external organisation, including for commercial, industry, non-profit and government use, Defence will consider requests to licence the imagery for purposes that align with Defence interests and satisfies the criteria.
External copyright requests are decided on a case-by-case basis in consultation with the Brand Managers for each Service.
Where approved, Defence will issue a limited copyright licence for the defined use of the imagery.
Requests
Copyright requests for commercial use can be submitted via the following:
- Defence Imagery website: by using the Copyright application form linked within each imagery.
- Sending an email to imagery.copyright@defence.gov.au, and providing:
- Image links to the specific video and imagery filenames published in the Defence Imagery gallery (found within the media asset's metadata).
- Detailed explanation of the intended use of the assets.
- Screengrabs or mock ups illustrating the intended use of the assets.
- Where applicable, verification of the organisation's established supplier or vendor relationship with Defence.