Copyright laws for education are not clear cut.

This website has many articles that belong to numerous owners. Whilst we, Energy Education Australia, make every effort to gain permission from the original owner, the original owner is not always known to us, hence material is often taken in good faith as coming from the primary owner.

For us copyright covers many aspects even on just this page. As an example, the following can all be copyrighted by different people:

• the printed word
• the various images that make up this page whether to a graphic designer or photographer
• the layout of the page
• and so on

For those who wishes to quote information from our site, please be aware you are free to do so for educational purposes. We do not guarantee the accuracy in all aspects as we are not conversant in all areas portrayed on this website relying on a variety of subscribers within Australia and around the world.

We hold permission from various corporations and educational institutions and associations to reproduce or adapt for Australian education their work. In these cases where a large selection has been included, we acknowledge their contribution along with our own.

We offer you the right to use material on our pages under the Creative Commons License:

Energy topics for classroom use by Energy Education Australia Inc is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License.
Based on a work at http://www.energy.edu.au. 

This licence lets others distribute, remix and build upon the work, but only if it is for non-commercial purposes, they credit the original creator/s (and any other nominated parties) and they license their derivative works under the same terms.
For a full explanation of the license - click here.

For clarification as to what can and cannot be copied by Australian Educational Institutions click the Australian Government's smartcopying link here.
http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/information-sheets/schools/students-and-copyright/students-and-copyright