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Different materials in the collection are made available under different conditions.

All text and images are copyright to the original authors and/or publishers where a work remains in copyright. In such cases texts and images are made available for non-commercial use only and all forms of electronic or print re-sale or re-distribution are forbidden without written permission.

Where the original text is out of copyright it is our policy to provide the digitised version under a New Zealand Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC BY-CA). This licence allows the sharing and transformation of the digitised text even for commercial reasons, as long as the NZETC is credited and users licence their new creations under the identical terms. This licence is often compared to open source software licences. More information on Creative Commons is available here. NZETC Creative Commons licensed texts are clearly labelled as such in the sidebar. Material not labelled as Creative Commons should be assumed to be in copyright and not available for sharing or re-use without written permission.

Copyright queries should be directed in the first instance to the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre.