A decade ago we began documenting online a very strange case of misattribution regarding the work of 19th century commercial photographer and contractor Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) for the colonial government of Tasmania, specifically his provision of prisoner mugshots taken in the 1870s of habitual offenders convicted at trial, returned on arraignment, or discharged from various sites of incarceration: the Port Arthur Penitentiary, the Supreme Court Hobart, the Hobart Gaol (Campbell Street), and the Mayor's Court at the Municipal Police Office, Hobart Town Hall.
We asked a simple question: "Where's the proof?"
The extraordinary marker in this case of photographer misattribution is the recent proposition that an official called A. H. Boyd, commandant of the Port Arthur prison from 1871 to December 1873 was the photographer of at least 83 estrays from several hundred taken by T. J. Nevin in Tasmania in the 1870s. Those 83 estrays held in a collection at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, were accessioned and exhibited in T. J. Nevin's name in the 1970s-1980s at the NLA, which the NLA has since re-catalogued as "
Convict Portraits, Port Arthur 1874" with A. H. Boyd's name as the "creator". But Boyd had no photographic skills, training, knowledge or official mandate, and no known extant photographs when
reputable historians in the decades 1970s-1980s researched and mounted an exhibition of these prisoner photographs as the work of Thomas J. Nevin (AGNSW 1976, QVMAG 1977), publishing their findings in the 1980s-90s (Kerr, Stilwell, McPhee 1977-1992). Not one single photographic portrait of a prisoner -
or a photograph in any other genre - nor indeed any historical document has been produced by the proponents of the Boyd misattribution since then which can validate the proposition that Boyd personally photographed prisoners at Port Arthur in 1874. We asked a simple question in 2005: "Where's the proof ?" that A. H. Boyd took these prisoners' photographs?
Less reputable voices emerged at the same time with an
oppositional agenda to Kerr, Stilwell et al (Long, Reeder 1995), touting their amateur credibility to traditional photohistory commentators
(Crombie, Ellis) as so much "new research" despite lack of evidence of any kind. Illogical as it seems, even more illogical was the promotion of this non-photographer A. H. Boyd into the annals of photohistory as an "artist".
The most perverse of all the Boyd apologists emerged in 2005; this was an "interpreter" of heritage at the Port Arthur Heritage Site on the Tasman Peninsula called Julia Clark. From the moment she saw these weblogs about T. J. Nevin's attribution, she began her
scraping and plagiarising, taking an abusive poke at Nevin and his descendants along the way, and finally publishing it all as her "own" research as yet another credited "peer reviewed reference" to notch up on the CV, one of the drivers behind this type of anxiety which pushes fraudsters such as Clark to bravado heights of intellectual theft.
Julia Clark must face charges of
academic fraud sooner or later. She has thrown
essays and articles in the face of librarians and museum workers since 2007, assuring them that her belief in the existence of a photographer attribution to A. H. Boyd is hypothetically possible - but then, anything is hypothetically possible until proven otherwise. So what proof has she found during the last ten years? Nothing. Not one single iota of evidence, except the fake inscription on a photograph of a
prison building, which we documented at length on these blogs in 2009-2010 .
This is the "proof" (see photo below) of all she has found in ten years since she first set her game in play. On the lower margin is a pencilled inscription in a modern hand - "
Enlargement from a stereoscopic view by A H Boyd Esq." scribbled onto an enlargement of a stereoscopic landscape view of the Port Arthur prison, taken in 1873 by Samuel Clifford and Thomas Nevin, reproduced by the Anson Brothers photographers in an album published in 1889, held at the State Library of NSW (
Views in Tasmania Vol II. (PXD511/ f10).
The inscription is a fake, put there sometime between 1984 and 1995 at the instigation of Chris Long, the perpetrator of the myth that A. H. Boyd was THE photographer of these Tasmanian prisoner mugshots instead of T. J. Nevin, the real photographer (or any other real photographer, for that matter, in Nevin's cohort). Chris Long blamed difficulties with his editor Gillian Winter (TMAG, 1995) and rumours spread by A. H. Boyd's descendants for publishing this furphy. Chris Long had certainly not heard of any so-called "Port Arthur photographer" by the name of A. H. Boyd, amateur or otherwise, when he submitted a draft copy of his list of early Tasmanian photographers to Dan Sprod, former Chief Librarian at the National Library of Australia (17th July 1983, NLA Dan Sprod MS 8429 Box 1): T. J. Nevin's name on that list, however, is asterisked "
to indicate the photographer's work survives in reasonable quantities."
This is it (below) - this is the only so-called evidence of Boyd's photography the NLA has on file
: a detail of a photograph of a corner of the image of a Port Arthur prison building with the fake inscription, not even fully visible - "
Enlargement from a stereoscopic view by A H Boyd Esq.". It is
not a photograph of a man in prison clothing. It is
not a portrait of a prisoner. But that's all Julia Clark has to offer. There is nothing else. Accompanying the printed photograph is
Julia Clark's garrulous, gossipy and offensive essay, devoid of any original research by her and largely derived from ours which - with the bravado of a thief who has got something for nothing - she used to finesse her way into the hearts and minds of librarians, and supervisors of a PhD program.
Above: One corner of a photograph of a building with a fake inscription is all Julia Clark has got to "prove" A. H. Boyd was a photographer of convicts.
Held at the NLA in Nevin's file
Photo taken at the National Library of Australia, 6 Feb 2015
Photos copyright © KLW NFC 2015 ARR
NLA CATALOGUE
[Nevin, T. J. : photography related ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia]
Bib ID 3821234
Format Book
Description 1 folder of miscellaneous pieces.
Series Australian photographer files
Full contents File contains material such as accession sheets, listings of works biographical material and correspondence related to convict portraits.
Subjects Nevin, Thomas J., - 1842-1923. | Photographers - Australia.
Impersonation of Nevin descendant
The "essay" by Clark pictured here from Nevin's NLA file is
unsigned. A copy was sent to this weblog by Head of Pictorial at the NLA, Linda Groom. It contained numerous vitriolic, personal attacks on a Nevin descendant by name, who requested all such references removed from any association with this disrespectful, amateurish student called Julia Clark. A further reason for requesting all references to the Nevin descendant be removed was the attempt by Clark to insinuate some sort of collusion, even consent from the Nevin descendant. The essay, as pictured here, shows evidence of those deletions (e.g. footnote 37). The fact that it is sitting in Nevin's file -
unsigned by Clark - is tantamount to
impersonation of implied but absent and unnamed co-authors. Clark also used a proxy in 2013 to set up a website targeting Thomas J. Nevin and his descendants with similar claims.
These paltry documents by Julia Clark - the essay, more images of the fake inscription on the prison building photograph, and a copy of the subsequent "peer-reviewed" article (
Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol 12, 2010, p77-97) - are located in the NLA's file on T. Nevin:
Nevin, T. J. : photography related ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia. The "peer-reviewer" was her University of Tasmania lecturer by 2010, Hamish-Maxwell Stewart, a member of the JACH board (Murdoch University), who can best be described as the tail wagging the dog regarding the A. H. Boyd misattribution. His current role as "UTAS Research Integrity, Adviser A/Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Associate Dean, Research Arts" is like trusting the wolf to guard the hen house.
Julia Clark's "peer-reviewed" article not only accused Nevin's descendants of being "strident" because they dared to blog about Thomas J. Nevin's career in the age of the internet, it also adopted a tenor of cosy familiarity with Nevin family members, referring to Thomas Nevin's brother as "Jack" which only family members used and still use. Devoid of any theoretical basis for actually reading photographic images, Clark ran a lengthy descriptive commentary on the State Library of NSW's collection of 1870s photographs of prisoners taken by T. J. Nevin (not digitised, Mitchell Collection) which we had individually photographed for this blog in 2009. No courtesy email, no requests for permission to reproduce our texts, images and information from Clark, just the delusion that she will get away with it so long as she networks the "right people".
These documents by Julia Clark have been placed in Thomas Nevin's Photographer file at the NLA as if they pertain to Nevin's work.
They don't. They pertain to Julia Clark's desperate ego-driven attempt to get attention from the NLA librarians to revise -
in her name on their catalogue entry against each and every prisoner mugshot - their long-standing catalogue header and attribution to T. J. Nevin as the photographer of 1870s Tasmanian prisoners, which the NLA calls "
Convict Portraits, Port Arthur, 1874". Her documents should be removed instead to her own NLA file as a dead-end anomaly. She should be recognised for what she is and was - just another student and one intent on deception.
Webshots 2005 and 2007 of NLA catalogue entries
Creator: Nevin, Thomas J., 1842-ca. 1922.
Title: Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] / Thomas J. Nevin.
Date: 1874.
Above: webshot from the original catalogue entires 1990s when these photographs of convicts first appeared on online at the NLA. The catalogue entry looked like this, with T. J. Nevin's name in the header as creator of the library's collection of "Convict Portraits, Port Arthur, 1874". The letter below from librarian
Margy Burn, dated 17 July 2007, indicates total ignorance of this fact.
Letter located in [Nevin, T. J. : photography related ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia]
Bib ID 3821234
Above: a letter from NLA librarian and reader's assistant of the Australian Collection,
Margy Burn, to this weblog, who seriously suggested putting our weblog URL onto the revised online catalogue in opposition to Clark's essay, choosing to ignore printed publications sitting on the shelves in the NLA's Pictorial section such as
The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, ed. Joan Kerr (1992). which document Nevin's work (pp 568-9) and which would have been an appropriate citation. Why the online viewer needs any citational help raises serious questions about the professionalism of Margy Burn, since
no other catalogue entry of the millions online at the NLA references any students' essays. The catalogue entry as it now stands is laughable. It is an advertisement for Clark's student essay published by the JACHS which the reader has to purchase. If ever there is evidence of
corporate psychopathy, this catalogue entry against every mugshot of a Tasmanian prisoner held at the National Library of Australia has got to be a stand-out example.
Julia Clark's Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
The National Library of Australia has to face up to hard facts: Julia Clark is playing out personal, sociopathic, intellectual and emotional anxieties by committing fraud, using T. J. Nevin - and his descendants - as her focus, target and
complaint. She is of "bad character" as the colonials would say. She is also mentally unstable. In the range of syndromes where fraud is the means, her repeated attempts to make herself believable with pages and pages of drivel pilfered and masticated to her taste from the internet, and mainly from our weblogs, falls within the scope of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
As
Margaret Anderson relates, Julia Clark's Tasmanian debut took on the identity of Aboriginal activist versus the establishment. Her Baron Munchausen was historian Henry Reynolds who was accused of fabrication of black history by opponent Keith Windshuttle (1998). This episode sealed Julia Clark's mind set of how history wars are played. Her next Munchausen by proxy episode, relevant here, was fuelled by an innocent request in an email to the Port Arthur Historic Site from a Nevin descendant for further information about a piece of
Port Arthur souvenir ware, a cruet, held in the Nevin family collections. By this time, Clark had an "interpretation" job at the Port Arthur heritage site. The request, we can report from a thousand miles away with the cruet in our hands which differed from the PAHS' item and which she had never seen, was met with self-righteous, brusque responses from an openly hostile but fascinated Julia Clark, claiming her opinion was the right one. This was augmented with some totally useless, blurry photographs of a tea set sent to us "
courtesy of..." which of course we ridiculed. She knew then she had found her next
complaint, the very ordinary but very real 1870s commercial and police photographer Thomas J. Nevin, one with biographers (conveniently deceased) and a curatorial history, not to mention descendants, those mainlanders with such a culturally significant name and legacy.
If the Henry Reynolds-Keith Windshuttle episode had shown Julia Clark what mind-set and modus operandi to adopt with regard to brawling with the establishment over Tasmanian Aborigines, she now had a good excuse to get closer to Reynolds by enrolling in a PhD at the University of Tasmania under his co-supervision, this time using convicts in the oppositional dialectic of convict versus photographer, criminals versus clean-skins, working class versus colonial middle class, government official (i.e. her man of the match, Commandant A. H. Boyd), versus the artist photographer: or, as it played out, it became Clark and the convicts and bosses of the Port Arthur Heritage Site (past and present) versus Thomas J. Nevin's convicts' photographs, their custodians in the public collections, and Nevin's descendants.
The title of her PhD thesis? She has chosen such a unique title:
Through a Glass Darkly: Photographs of Colonial Convicts (UTAS, History begun 17/9/2013). Good luck with Google trying to make that title rise in the rankings. And the subtitle? Here's a suggestion:
Through a Glass Darkly
An Historical Novel Based on True Events that Never Happened.
by Julia Clark, perennial student and septuagenarian
West Hobart Town
Little Tasmania
Fraud begets fictions, no matter how true they become in the minds of believers. The Munchausen figure Julia Clark next turned to for control by proxy of her
complaint was the publisher of the Boyd furphy, list-maker of an A-Z guide to
Tasmanian photographers 1840-1940 (TMAG 1995), a ham radio enthusiast from Melbourne called Chris Long. His A-Z index was not simply copied from substantial previous photohistories (eg Kerr et al, Alan Davies etc), his own anxieties at being regarded as a pretentious fraud and plagiarist were projected onto Julia Clark with such force, she has become his mouthpiece - that is, in the rare moments when he isn't ranting and raving over the air waves or on Facebook with all manner of foul abuse. His nonsense has compromised a generation of students interested in forensic and historical police photography, especially Melbourne dealer and
NLA valuer, the late Warwick Reeder.
Professor John Bradshaw from Monash University defines the Munchausen problem in academia in these terms:
Deliberate fraud, and I never would really 'spoof' my colleagues, even in temporary jest, is both fairly frequent in, and highly destructive of, the edifice of science. There is the notorious recent case of a professor of palaeontology who is said to have bought fossils from rock shops and sent them individually to a range of eminent colleagues elsewhere, with the claim that they all came from a particular, rather unlikely locality. The eminent colleagues, scenting a free publication (and unfortunately the bean counters of science management reward by quantity, not quality) were happy to say 'how very interesting', and have their names added to the offender's latest paper, as a freebee. How the mighty fell! ...
Henry Poincarre claimed that science, like a house, is built of bricks. Such bricks are said to be objective, value-free observations of unbiased, disinterested (though never uninterested) individuals. It isn't. It is an intensely human enterprise, subject to all the ambitions, jealousies, animosities, prejudices, and even sense of fun, of its participants....
In psychiatry, there is a rare condition called Munchausen Syndrome, which involves repeated fabrication, or pretence of physical illness, usually acute, dramatic and convincing, by a patient who wanders from hospital to hospital seeking treatment, and attention. Patients may simulate many physical disorders, and bear the scars of repeated, unsuccessful, surgery; they are usually intelligent and resourceful, and differ from malingerers because, although their deceits and simulations are conscious, their motivations for forging illness and quest for attention, are largely unconscious. Munchausen Syndrome by proxy is an even more bizarre variant, where the individual's child may be used as a surrogate patient; the parent may even injure the child to simulate disease.
I wonder whether, one day, someone will turn up familial Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, perhaps even involving pets? Maybe it's no coincidence that Munchausen Syndrome is anyway, itself a kind of fraud.
Source: Ockham's Razor
Fun, Fraud and Fabrication in Science and the Arts
Sunday 6 August 2000 8:45AM
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/fun-fraud-and-fabrication-in-science-and-the-arts/3470648
Julia Clark's violation of NLA copyright 2014
This weblog has documented Julia Clark's fraud as
a PARASITIC attribution, perhaps too kindly, since her latest fraud offense is bolder than ever, but it might just elucidate Julia Clark's fraudulent behaviour to the crowd she has gathered as her campaign of defamation of Nevin's descendants escalates incrementally towards ... what? Climax/finishing the thesis/graduation/ winning the game/ relieving the itch? Is it going to happen? It's very doubtful. Fraud is a serious issue. Nonetheless, quite sure in her mind now that she has succeeded in making everyone in the museum and library business believe that A. H. Boyd was not only a photographer when there is
no evidence to be found anywhere, but also THE photographer of convicts, Julia Clark has used the Tasmanian Historical Research Association as her fall-guy by persuading them to publish an essay in their December 2014 journal issue. Her refrain in every article, and in this one too, is that if she can't find a document, it never existed in the first place.
This deception neatly covers Clark's laziness in not searching for authentic historical archival documents in libraries and museums, and her assumption that if the information isn't visible on our weblogs, we haven't found any either, which indicates clearly our weblogs as her primary sources. Her article shamelessly scrapes our Nevin weblogs (we recorded her three thousands clicks on
our article about Henry Singleton), and fills up page after page with mindless trivia about police and and petty crime, until it gallops to the conclusion with the only reason for writing it at all: to include the PAHS museum's copy of the original capture by Nevin of a convict called
George Brown, one of just a handful left over from Radcliffe's 1930s' Curiosity Shop set up for tourists at the Port Arthur Heritage site. Their copy bears the number
"38" recto. She has captioned it with her own attribution to A. H. Boyd, and given the source as the NLA's digital code URL "
nla.pic-vn4269860", which is patently
not the source of her copy. The National Library of Australia's copy has been online since the 1990s and DOES NOT bear the number "38" recto.
This is the NLA's one and only photograph of prisoner George Brown, taken by contractor Thomas J. Nevin at the Municipal Police Office in February 1874 on Brown's discharge from the Hobart Gaol. The full record online reflects Julia Clark's anxiety at not getting enough attention - as a student, poor thing!
FULL NLA RECORD:
Title George Brown, per M. [i.e. Maria] Soames, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]
Date 1874.
Extent 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.3 cm.
Context Part of Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874 [picture]
Series Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874.
Notes No photographer name or studio stamp appears on these photographs. Formerly attributed to Thomas J. Nevin, the portraits are now considered more likely to have been taken by A.H. Boyd. See: Julia Clark. A question of attribution: Port Arthur's convict portraits in Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol 12, 2010, p77-97.
Part of collection: Convict portraits, Port Arthur, 1874.
Gunson Collection file 203/7/54.
Title from inscription on reverse.
Inscription: title and "150"--In ink on reverse.
Condition: Slight foxing.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4269860
Subject Brown, George -- Portraits.
Convicts -- Tasmania -- Port Arthur -- Portraits.
Occupation Convicts.
Other authors Boyd, A. H. (Aldolarius Humphrey), 1829-1891.
Identifier nla.pic-vn4269860
Bib idvn4269860
Call number(s)
PIC P1029/3 LOC Album 935 *
George Brown was never sent to Port Arthur. The weekly Tasmanian police gazette tells a very different story. He was employed in a gang working from the Queen's Domain in Hobart:
Above: warrant for the arrest of George Brown per Maria Soames, 5th February 1869.
Above: Warrant for the arrest of Thomas Wilson identical with George Brown per Maria Soames, 18th June 1869.
George Brown as Thomas Wilson was photographed on discharge from the Hobart Gaol by Thomas J. Nevin, 11 February, 1874. Source:Tasmania Reports of Crime Information for Police 1871-1885. J. Barnard, Gov't Printer.
Mugshot no. 38
This is the copy with the number "38" on the front which Julia Clark has used as "proof" of an attribution to substantiate her fantasist photographer attribution to Commandant A. H. Boyd. She has quoted the NLA identifier URL "
nla.pic-vn4269860" even though her copy and the NLA copy are not one and the same item. They have been kept in different locations and have very different accession and display histories. Prisoner George Brown was not sent to Port Arthur, nor was he exposed to the reviled bully A. H. Boyd in any context.
Above: Detail of our photograph below (6 Feb 2015)
Tasmanian Historical Research Association, page 85 December 2014
Julia Clark's copy of Nevin's original photograph of convict George Brown from the Port Arthur Historic Site museum, numbered "38" , captioned with her false attribution to A. H. Boyd, and Port Arthur as the wrong place of incarceration.
The NLA Identifier she uses is nla.pic-vn4269860 but it is not the actual item held at the NLA, it is just a copy of the one capture on glass by Nevin of George Brown in 1874.
Photo taken at the National Library of Australia, 6 Feb 2015
Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2015 ARR
Tasmanian Historical Research Associaton, page 85 December 2014
Julia Clark's copy from Port Arthur Heritage Site museum, numbered "38" on recto with false attribution to A. H. Boyd, and Port Arthur as the wrong place of incarceration.
The NLA Identifier she wrongly uses is nla.pic-vn4269860 to suggest it is THE SAME ITEM
Taken at the National Library of Australia, 6 Feb 2015
Photo copyright © KLW NFC 2015 ARR
There is only
ONE photograph of George Brown at the NLA - we checked the entire collection in situ on Friday, 6th February, 2015. So why does Julia Clark pretend her copy and the NLA' copy are one and the same? Does excessive anxiety about the false A. H. Boyd attribution warrant such deception? The number "
38" appears on the front of the photograph of George Brown in her article where there is no number on the front of the NLA item. On the verso of the NLA photograph of George Brown is the number "150". And the only photograph of a convict in the NLA collection which bears the number "38" is that of
Duncan McDonald on its verso. The QVMAG holds a cdv photograph of convict
Thomas Jackson per
Layton 4 which bears the number "38" on the recto, written on the front by 20th century archivists during copying and dispersal of hundreds of these cdvs to other public collections (complete list received here in 2009). The use of the NLA's catalogue number is for fraudulent purposes - to give credence to Clark's argument that the copy she has used from the PAHS collection was originally taken by A. H. Boyd. She has construed a nonsensical argument to violate copyright at the NLA in order to deceive both the NLA and the public at large, purely in the interest of personal gain.
Some of the extant prisoner or convict "portraits" (the term aestheticises what is a vernacular item) were stamped verso with T. J. Nevin's Royal Arms colonial warrant - his government contractor stamp - to register his copyright with the Customs and Patent Office and to access his commission from both the Hobart Municipal Council (Lands and Survey Dept) and Municipal Police Office (Municipal Fund.)
Copyright endured absolute for 14 years on submission of two samples under the Merchandise Marks Act 1864. One photograph per batch of 100 was stamped for this reason while Nevin was still working from his studio in Elizabeth St. Hobart and visiting the Hobart Gaol and Supreme Court at Oyer sessions. After his appointment to full-time civil service in 1876, the stamp was unnecessary.
The National Library of Australia's collection of Tasmanian prisoner mugshots are loose duplicates from the original half-dozen or so printed by T. J. Nevin from his negative of a single capture at a single sitting with the prisoner. They were transcribed verso with a generic date, 1874, and the convict's ship of arrival, all for the information of tourists and museum visitors by an archivist in the 1900s, probably for display and sale at John Watt Beattie's "Port Arthur Museum" located in Hobart. Several were included in travelling intercolonial exhibitions asociated with the fake convict hulk
Success. Some were accessioned at the NLA as a collection from the QVMAG, Launceston, found amongst records from the Sheriff's Office, Hobart Gaol; others were held by the Benevolent Society in the early 1900s and donated to the NLA by Dr Neil Gunson in the 1960s as government estrays (Dan Sprod papers NLA MS 2320 1.5.64 Missionary history).
Hundreds of T. J. Nevin's six or so duplicates from his single negative taken of a prisoner on arrest, arraignment and discharge exist in national and State collections (QVMAG, SLNSW, TAHO, TMAG, NLA, PCHS, private collections), some still pasted to the criminal's record sheet. But this is
the one and only extant photograph of George Brown held at the NLA, catalogued in the album and online as "
nla.pic-vn4269860" which we inspected and photographed on February 6th, 2015:
Identifier nla.pic-vn4269860: the 1900s archivist number on verso is "150"
Verso of the NLA photograph by Thomas J. Nevin, February 1874 of prisoner George Brown as Thomas Wilson.
Taken at the National Library of Australia, 6 Feb 2015
Photos recto and verso copyright © KLW NFC 2015 AR
Fraudulent pretensions
The essay by Julia Clark in this issue of the THRA journal, December 2014, directly follows a memoir by the former Governor of Tasmania, Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, CVO who was the Governor of Tasmania from 1995 to 2003. He was the first Tasmanian-born governor of the state, although not the first Australian-born. How shameful for the THRA to be the victim of Julia Clark's fraudulent pretensions in such illustrious company. The NLA in collusion with Julia Clark has violated these moral rights of Thomas J. Nevin (1842-1923) and his descendants as creator and author of this weblog:
Infringement of Moral Rights (NLA)
What are moral rights?
Australian copyright law sets out a separate and additional set of rights called moral rights. Moral rights give certain creators and performers the right:
to have their authorship or performership attributed to them;
not to have their work falsely attributed to someone else; and
not to have their work treated in a derogatory way.
Moral rights should always be considered if you are re-using and altering works (for example, through editing, cropping or colourising) and you should ensure that attributions are clear and reasonably prominent.
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