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Copyright question on Bussorah Merchant (1818 ship)

Hi, a few things regarding your statement that I don't know if I'm allowed to cite it under copyright in the edit summary for the change that you made on Bussorah Merchant (1818 ship).

• You can always cite & link to copyrighted material. Please see WP:COPYLINK. The exception is linking to a site that itself egregiously violates copyright.
• Anything that is more than 120 years old is certain to be in the WP:PUBLICDOMAIN. Also, I think a ship's log would follow under a WP:NONCREATIVE works.
• You can find a lot of information about copyrights at WP:COPYRIGHT & commons:Commons:Copyright rules.
• Here is some information more specific to Australia:
  • Wikipedia:Non-U.S. copyrights#Countries with copyright relations with the United States on January 1, 1927
  • "COPYRIGHT ACT 1968". Australasian Legal Information Institute. 1995-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  • commons:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory/Australia

I hope this is not too much information to throw at you as a new user. I went ahead & added the Bussorah Merchant 3 Sep 1839 citation to the article. The citation basically looks like this:

• "Bussorah Merchant ship log for 3 Sep 1839". Retrieved 2022-07-02.

I hope that is helpful. I encourage you to keep editing & asking questions! Peaceray (talk) 17:06, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your help, Peaceray. It would be good if the "copyright" link at NSW archives was more informative with regards to the actual type of information where the link is placed. I double checked the date of arrival of the vessel because if it was Dec my forebear would have been born aboard -- but she wasn't, she was a dinky-di currency lass! :) 6thGenAussie (talk) 00:00, 3 July 2022 (UTC)