Talk:1956 Murray River flood

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A fact from 1956 Murray River flood appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 17 September 2007.

[edit] copyright

Are 1956 photos such as the one at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/flood.shtml out of copyright yet? --Scott Davis ^Talk 08:41, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

The {{PD-Australia}} template says Commonwealth or State government owned photographs first published more than 50 years ago (reason E) are in the public domain. Would it be safe to assume the BOM holds the copyright to those images? -- Longhair\^talk 08:47, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Probably not. The caption says (Photo courtesy of The Adelaide Advertiser). --Scott Davis ^Talk 23:17, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Flood website

There's a website which might help with some information on the flood, 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Flood from the South Australian Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation. None of the links seems to work for me though as they all seem to link to a search form. :/ -- Longhair\^talk 12:04, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

See also http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/murray/contentscreen.htm?content/dwindlingRiver/floods1956_cover.htm which appears to work fine. -- Longhair\^talk 05:31, 15 September 2007 (UTC)