Copyright & Intellectual Property

This page explains who owns the material on this website, what you are free to do with it, and how to get in touch if you believe something here infringes your rights. It sits alongside the site Terms of Use, which govern your use of the site as a whole.

Ownership

I am Troy Kelly, and I write and build this site as an individual. Unless a page says otherwise, the original material on this site — the articles and other writing, the code snippets, the photographs and illustrations, the page designs, and the way it is all put together — is my work and is protected by copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

Copyright is automatic in Australia. It exists from the moment a work is created and recorded in material form; there is no register to search and nothing to file. The absence of a copyright notice on a particular page does not mean the material is free to use.

Where a page presents work that is not mine — a quotation, a photograph, an embedded video, a logo, or anything credited to someone else — that material belongs to its owner and is used here on that basis. See “Third-party trade marks and content” below.

What you may do

You are welcome to read, enjoy, and privately keep the material on this site for your own personal, non-commercial use, and to share it in the ordinary way the web works. In practice that means you may:

• read anything here, and save or print a copy for your own personal reference;
• link to any page on the site — links are always welcome, and you never need permission to link;
• quote a reasonable, limited extract in your own work, provided you attribute it clearly to Troy Kelly and link back to the original page; and
• share a page by sending someone the link, or by posting the link on social media.

Beyond that, all rights are reserved. Unless I have given you specific written permission, or a page states an express licence, you may not:

• republish, syndicate, or repost the whole or a substantial part of an article, image, or other work — including on another website, in a newsletter, or in print;
• use any material for a commercial purpose, or in a way that implies I endorse or am associated with your product, service, or content;
• create merchandise, training material, or other derivative works from the content; or
• copy, scrape, or reproduce the content — in whole or in substantial part — to compile a dataset, corpus, or index for text and data mining or for training, fine-tuning, or evaluating machine-learning or generative artificial-intelligence models. I do not grant permission for that use, and I expressly reserve my rights against it.

If you would like to do something that goes beyond personal reading and ordinary sharing, please ask — email me at troy@troykelly.com and tell me what you have in mind. I am often happy to say yes; I just want to know.

Fair dealing

Nothing on this page takes away the rights you already have under the law. The Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) allows certain uses of copyright material without the owner’s permission, known as fair dealing. Depending on the circumstances, that can include using the material for:

• research or study;
• criticism or review, where you sufficiently acknowledge the work;
• reporting the news; and
• parody or satire.

Whether a particular use is a fair dealing depends on the facts, and the Act sets the boundaries — not this page. Where you rely on one of these exceptions, please still name Troy Kelly and link to the source page where you can; a sufficient acknowledgement is part of what makes a dealing fair for criticism or review.

Moral rights

As the author, I hold moral rights in my work under Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), separately from the economic rights described above. These include the right to be identified as the author, the right not to have authorship falsely attributed, and the right to have the integrity of my work respected.

In plain terms: when you use my material, please attribute it to Troy Kelly, do not present it as someone else’s, and do not alter, distort, or present it in a way that is prejudicial to my honour or reputation. Removing my name, editing a piece so it says something I did not say, or reusing an image out of context in a misleading way can infringe these rights even where a fair dealing or a permission would otherwise cover the copying.

Third-party trade marks and content

Names, logos, product names, and trade marks that appear on this site and belong to other people or organisations remain the property of their respective owners. They are used here only to identify or refer to those people, organisations, or products; their appearance is not a claim of ownership by me, and does not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation in either direction.

Some articles embed third-party media — for example, a YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud player. That embedded content belongs to the person or organisation that published it and is governed by the host provider’s own terms; see the Cookies & Analytics page for how those embeds behave. Any other quoted or credited third-party material is likewise the property of its owner and is used on the basis of that owner’s rights or an applicable exception.

Alleged infringement and takedown

I try to respect other people’s copyright and moral rights, and I want this site to do the same. If you believe that something on this site infringes your copyright or another intellectual-property right, please tell me and I will look into it promptly.

Email me at troy@troykelly.com and include:

• your name and the best way to contact you;
• the exact page or URL on this site where the material appears, and enough detail to identify the specific material you are concerned about;
• a description of the right you say has been infringed, and the basis on which you own or control it; and
• if you can, a link to the original work.

I will review a genuine, good-faith report and, where it is well founded, remove or correct the material or resolve the matter with you directly. Raising a concern with me is a practical, good-faith process; it does not replace, and is without prejudice to, any legal rights or remedies either of us may have.

If your question is about reusing my material rather than reporting someone else’s, the “What you may do” section above is the place to start — and you are welcome to email the same address to ask.