Copyright and usage rights

1. Who owns the material?

A person describing their life does not automatically own copyright in every document about that life. This page does not claim ownership over facts, events, other people's material or material in the public domain.

2. Permission to operate the publishing service

To host and display an author's publication, The Blue•Print will need a limited, non-exclusive licence for the agreed service. The intended licence allows the platform to store, reproduce and display material according to the author's publication and access choices, and to make the technical copies needed to operate and back up that service.

That permission is not a transfer of copyright. It is not blanket permission to sell the author's work, license it to unrelated parties, publish private supporting material or use it to train AI models.

This describes the permission granted to The Blue•Print. Once pages are made public, external services may access them independently. Authors should understand the public crawling and automated-access information below before publishing.

The registration terms will specify the licence's scope, service providers, duration, how it ends and how backups are handled. Sending an enquiry or background material is not, by itself, permission to publish it. Authors will review and agree to the relevant terms before publication.

3. Reading, linking and personal copies

You are welcome to read publicly available pages and share links to them. Respect the author's attribution and any notices attached to the work.

For original project material owned by John Brown, this page permits a personal copy for private, non-commercial reading or study, with the author, source link and copyright notices retained. That permission does not extend to republication, commercial reuse or third-party material.

For other authors' work, follow the permission statement on that publication, obtain the rights holder's permission or rely on an applicable legal exception. A download button provides a way to obtain a file; any further reuse remains subject to its permissions.

4. Quotation, education and public-interest sharing

Australian copyright law allows certain uses without permission, including fair dealing for specified purposes where its requirements are met. Educational, non-commercial or public-interest intentions do not create a general permission to reproduce an entire work.

Authors may choose to allow wider sharing of particular works. Where a publication carries an express sharing licence, use it within those terms and retain the required attribution and source link.

The Blue•Print cannot grant a wider licence to an author's or third party's material without authority. Public-interest sharing permissions for one work do not automatically apply to another, or to private, restricted or embargoed material.

5. Attribution and moral rights

Credit the creator accurately and distinguish their words from your own. Do not present someone else's work as yours, falsely attribute it or imply an endorsement that was not given.

Australian law recognises moral rights, including attribution, protection against false attribution and integrity of authorship, subject to the law's qualifications. Hosting permission does not transfer these rights. Any agreed editing or adaptation should explain how the author will review the work and be credited.

6. Material supplied by an author

Authors should identify material they created, material used with permission, material under another licence and material they believe can lawfully be used under an exception. Source and permission details should be kept with the material where practicable.

Owning a copy of a letter, photograph, report or medical record does not necessarily mean owning its copyright. Copyright permission also does not resolve separate questions about privacy, confidentiality or publication about other people.

Recollections and provisional details can be identified as such and corrected as evidence develops. A draft or document supplied for context should be clearly marked if it is not intended for public publication.

7. Archiving, preservation and future publication

Operational backups and external public archives serve different purposes. Permission needed for service backups will be explained in the registration terms. Any external preservation undertaken by The Blue•Print on an author's behalf will require a separate, clear choice about the material and destination.

Public pages may also be copied or archived independently by others. Changing or withdrawing a page from The Blue•Print does not guarantee that copies held by readers, search services or external archives can be removed.

Legacy and posthumous publication arrangements are future options. They will need explicit instructions and appropriate authority, including what may be published, who may act, duration and any costs. This page does not grant automatic posthumous publication rights.

8. Public crawling, automated collection and AI use

Authors should expect publicly available pages to be visited by spiders, crawlers and other automated systems. These may be operated by search engines, social platforms, archive services, AI developers and other organisations, including services running on cloud platforms.

Depending on the service, public material may be fetched, indexed, cached, archived or used to generate search listings, link previews or summaries. Requests may also come through intermediaries, so it may not be possible to identify every operator or determine every subsequent use from the site's traffic records.

Technical instructions can communicate crawling preferences to services that respect them, but they do not guarantee that every service will comply. The Blue•Print cannot guarantee that public material will never be collected, retained or used by an external service, including an AI developer.

Public availability and automated access are different from permission to reuse a work. An external service's access does not mean The Blue•Print has sold or licensed the author's work to it. Material intended to remain confidential should not be made public in reliance on a copyright notice or crawling instruction.

No licence for bulk republication, commercial data aggregation, AI-model training or automated derivative publication is granted by this page. Where permission is required, it must come from the relevant rights holder.

An author choosing an optional AI-assisted service is a separate decision. Its terms should identify the material processed, the purpose, the provider and applicable data handling. Permission to help with an author's chosen task is not general permission to train a model on their work.

These permissions statements remain subject to applicable law, legal exceptions and any separate licence attached to the material.

For further information about crawling instructions and their limitations, see Google's guidance on robots.txt.

9. Corrections, withdrawal and rights concerns

Authors may request corrections or withdrawal of material they have published through The Blue•Print. Available controls, response procedures, service-copy removal and backup retention will be explained in the service terms.

If you believe material has been used without the required rights, contact us with the page address, the material concerned, your relationship to the rights holder and the action you are requesting. Do not send sensitive identity documents or private evidence in an initial enquiry.

A request to correct or remove material from this service is distinct from requests to external archive operators or other people holding copies.

10. Scope and further information

This page concerns copyright and permissions on The Blue•Print. It does not replace publication-specific licences, registration terms or the separate notices on Trauma in Religion, TFYQA or other linked services.

Australian copyright is governed by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Nothing here is intended to remove a statutory exception or a right that cannot lawfully be excluded. This is general information about the platform's principles, not individual legal advice.

For independent guidance, see the Australian Attorney-General's Department: Copyright basics and Information for copyright users.