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== NZ government copyrights ==
Almost everything is covered either by regular [[copyright]] or, if it is a [[:en:State sector organisations in New Zealand#Public service departments|public service department]], by '''Crown copyright''', which in [[Aotearoa]] has a 100-year term under Section 26(3)(b) of the [[Copyright Act 1994]]. This puts most recent material out of bounds. However, there is an exception to these provisions for some documents:
* {{tl|NZCrownCopyright}} -- Some Government departments allow their material to be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium provided it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged. Remember that this is not a carte blanche. See the [[Template talk:NZCrownCopyright|talk page]] for a list of web sites that will allow some use &mdash; and check the copyright notice first as they are all different.
* {{tl|PD-NZSection27}} -- for works created by some New Zealand government entities, which are covered by Section 27(1) of the Copyright Act 1994 [http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/]. The section excludes from copyright protection the following NZ works: Bills, Acts, regulations, municipal bylaws, Hansard, select committee reports, court judgments, Royal commission reports, commission of inquiry reports, ministerial inquiry reports and statutory inquiry reports. Note that sourcing these from a third party provider that, say, annotated Acts, is dangerous -- they would have copyright in those annotations, and/or copyright in a new typographical arrangement [http://www.med.govt.nz/buslt/int_prop/info-sheets/copyright-prot.html#P27_4364].
* {{tl|NZ-Currency}} -- there is list of criteria released by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand for one-sided reproductions of NZ currency without permission. The criteria apply only to exact reproductions. See the template and [http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/currency/Money/0114307.html|the RBNZ website's reproduction criteria] for clarification of the below. Naturally, any copyright is still retained, so fair use may still need to be observed. In short:
** "For one-sided reproductions, provided these are more than 125% or less than 75% of both the length and width of the respective bank note, irrespective of the material used for the reproduction."
** "For one-sided reproductions, provided these are more than 125% or less than 75% of the diameter of the respective coin. Any materials used for the reproduction must not be metal OR metallic like."