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• Are permissions which refer to “reproduction” sufficient to allow us to put the material on our website?
• Are there any copyright problems in using Indigenous stories in an exhibition we’re mounting?
• Are there any restrictions on our museum reproducing photos taken  in 1930?
• As part of an exhibition, an artist wants to make temporary additions to a sculpture displayed in the gallery. Is there any problem with this?
• Can a museum overprint and crop photos for an exhibition?
• Can our gallery reproduce artwork in a magazine article about the gallery and its activities?
• Can we charge for access to out-of-copyright images when people don’t get them from our museum?
• Can we cut 10 second clips from a series of films to make a video to have on display in the museum?
• Can we permit a client to reproduce an out-of-copyright painting in our gallery, or do we need to check with the artist’s heir?
• Can we photograph a poster on the side of a building in order to promote an exhibition?
• Can we photograph our building and put the photo on a poster and postcards?
• Can we publish old unpublished letters or journals from our collection?
• Can we reproduce an illustration on our website that was originally published in 1938 under an initial?
• Can we use computer games as part of an interactive museum exhibition?
• Do curators have to be attributed?
• Do we need either copyright or privacy clearances to use photos of members of the general public?
• Does a museum have to attribute creators of works that have been incorporated into an audiovisual / interactive display?
• Does a museum infringe copyright by exhibiting an infringing copy of a photograph?
• Does copyright subsist in a photogrpah of an out-of-copyright painting?
• Does the gallery need permission to make reproductions of new acquisitions to include in invitations to an opening of an exhibition of these works?
• Does the gallery need permission to reproduce a piece of Aboriginal art from the collection on the cover of its annual report, given this is a non-profit purpose?
• How should I draft licence agreements for people to use photos in the museum’s collection?
• If 14 people create something together, can we get a licence to reproduce from only one of them?
• If the author of a book is dead, can our museum reprint the book?
• Our gallery owns paintings by an artist who has died. Do we need permission to reproduce the images?
• We are publishing an exhibition catalogue with a number of quotes from different sources. Will we need permission?
• We have been given permission to reproduce some material for “exhibition purposes”. Can we also reproduce that material in a catalogue?
• We received a licence to reproduce mateiral in an exhibition catalogue, but now the licensor says the publication is really a book and wants to charge us more. What should we do?
• What are the copyright implications if we put material onto our website in Australia that is in the public domain here but not overseas?
• What copyright issues are there in having a television playing during an exhibition?
• Who has publication rights on a mural created for the museum by a volunteer, and which we now want to publish as a poster?
• Who needs to be attributed when we screen a film?
• Who owns copyright in a manuscript bequeathed to the galleryor museum in 1967?
• Who owns copyright in a soldier’s unpublished war diary that was donated by his six children?
• Who owns copyright in an oral history interview?
• Who owns copyright in material created by employees during their study leave?