Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia

Also known as Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 Australia, Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0, Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia, CC BY NC 3.0, CC BY NC 3.0 AU, CC BY-NC 3.0, CC BY-NC 3.0 AU, CC-BY-NC 3.0, CC-BY-NC 3.0 AU, Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0, Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 AU.

Commercial use: not allowed
Share alike: not required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Commercial use from the text
Sublicense from the text

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

Promote by default rule (adopted)

This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

Except as expressly stated in this Licence or otherwise agreed to by the parties in writing, and to the full extent permitted by applicable law, the Licensor offers the Work "as-is" and makes no representations, warranties or conditions of any kind concerning the Work, express, implied, statutory or otherwise. This includes, without limitation, any representations, warranties or conditions regarding: the contents or accuracy of the Work; title, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose; non-infringement; the absence of latent or other defects; or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not discoverable. The Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), and the corresponding State and Territory fair trading legislation, imply certain warranties and conditions in certain circumstances, such as the right to supply or fitness for purpose of goods or services supplied to a consumer. Clause 5(a) cannot and is not intended to exclude, restrict or modify these warranties.

Limitation of liability

To the full extent permitted by applicable law, and except for any liability arising from contrary agreement, in no event will the Licensor be liable to You on any legal basis (including without limitation, negligence) for any loss or damage whatsoever, including (without limitation): loss of production or operation time, loss, damage or corruption of data or records; or loss of anticipated savings, opportunity, revenue, profit or goodwill, or other economic loss; or any special, incidental, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages arising out of or in connection with this Licence or the use of the Work, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such damages. If applicable legislation implies warranties or conditions, or imposes obligations or liability on the Licensor in respect of this Licence that cannot be wholly or partly excluded, restricted or modified, the Licensor’s liability is limited, to the full extent permitted by the applicable legislation, at its option, to: in the case of goods, any one or more of the following: the replacement of the goods or the supply of equivalent goods; the repair of the goods; the payment of the cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods; the payment of the cost of having the goods repaired; or in the case of services: the supplying of the services again; or the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again. The Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), and the corresponding State and Territory fair trading legislation, restrict the limitation of liability in certain circumstances, such as a contract for the supply of goods or services of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic, or household use. Clauses 6(a) and 6(b) cannot and are not intended to apply in circumstances where it is prohibited by law.

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie)
Region / jurisdiction: Australia
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/
Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/legalcode
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Creative Commons
SPDX identifier: CC-BY-NC-3.0 (provisional, the record declares none)
Version: 3.0
DALICC identifier: AttributionNoncommercial30Australia

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia",
  "license-title": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia",
  "spdx-id": null,
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

Badge

Markdown

[![License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia](https://dalicc.net/license-library/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia)

HTML

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/AttributionNoncommercial30Australia/badge.svg" alt="License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia"></a>

Review

Status: Reviewed against the license text
Last checked: 2026-09-15
Reviewer: Giray Havur
Verdict: corrected during the review
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 19 recorded, 3 applied to the record, 2 proposed, 1 settled in a later version

The record models the BY-NC element set of the Creative Commons 3.0 port for Australia and the deontic model is correct: the NonCommercial element prohibits cc:CommercialUse, the attribution and notice duties hang on the acts that make the work public, and every permission follows from the grant section of the port. The legal text was read in English (Australian spelling), and the permissions, prohibitions and duties were checked against its grant and restriction sections and against the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-4.0. Corrections applied: dct:source. What remains are proposals that touch the whole Creative Commons family rather than this record, chiefly the express prohibition of sublicensing.

18 findings

minor Rubric 1 dct:source applied

The record carried cc:legalcode but no dct:source. The legal code page of the port states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/, and the six 4.0 International parents carry exactly that pair, legal code plus deed. Added.
info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId none

The SPDX licence list defines no identifier for this port. The id that the legal code URL implies, CC-BY-NC-3.0-AU, is not on the list, so none was invented. Only four records of this review group can take an SPDX identifier: CC-BY-3.0-AU, CC-BY-3.0-AT, CC-BY-3.0-US and CC-BY-SA-3.0-AT.
minor Rubric 2 odrl:target proposed

The record targets dalicc:CreativeWork alone, while the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-4.0 targets dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Dataset. This port has no database rights clause, so the case rests only on the media neutrality of the grant. Aligning the ports with the parents is one library wide decision covering every Creative Commons port, so it is left as a proposal.
info Rubric 3 odrl:permission none

Every modelled permission is supported by the grant. Clause 3A: "the Licensor grants to You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) licence to exercise the following rights". The grant covers Reproduce the Work, incorporate it into Collections, Reproduce it as incorporated, create and Reproduce Derivative Works, and Distribute and publicly perform the Work, a Derivative Work or the Work in a Collection. The record models this as odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:modify, odrl:derive, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks.
minor Rubric 3 odrl:permission proposed

The record permits dalicc:chargeDistributionFee while prohibiting cc:CommercialUse. Clause 4C: "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You by clause 3 above in any Commercial manner." "Commercial" is defined in clause 1 as "primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or private monetary compensation", with digital file sharing without payment excluded. The vocabulary defines dalicc:chargeDistributionFee as a fee covering the act of providing the work to a third party, so a pure cost recovery fee is arguable under the commercial advantage test, but the statement sits uneasily next to the prohibition. The same statement is in the 4.0 International parent CC-BY-NC-4.0 and in all 145 NonCommercial records of the library, so removing it is one library wide decision, not a defect of this port.
info Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

cc:CommercialUse is prohibited, which the NonCommercial clause states directly. Clause 4C: "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You by clause 3 above in any Commercial manner." "Commercial" is defined in clause 1 as "primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or private monetary compensation", with digital file sharing without payment excluded. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which the licence supports: the licensee may offer the work only under the terms of this licence and may not offer or impose terms that alter or restrict it. dalicc:promote is prohibited, which rests on the reservation of all rights not expressly granted and on the trademark paragraph of the Creative Commons notice around the licence, not on a clause of the licence body.
info Rubric 5 odrl:duty none

The attribution and notice duties are present and supported. Clause 4D requires all copyright notices to be kept intact and credit to the Original Author and any "Attribution Parties" the Original Author or Licensor designates, the title of the Work and the Uniform Resource Identifier the Licensor specifies, plus, for a Derivative Work, a credit identifying the use made of the Work. The duties hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, which matches the licence, since they are triggered by making the work public rather than by private use.
info Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer none

dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation are quoted verbatim from the English (Australian spelling) text of this port and not from the English Unported version, and they match the disclaimer section and the limitation of liability section of the legal code. Each field holds its own clause, with no overlap between the two.
info Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The record has no dalicc:additionalClauses, so the clauses the ODRL policy cannot carry, the reservation of unnamed rights, the downstream offer to recipients, the severability, waiver and entire agreement paragraphs and the termination rule, are not visible in the record at all. The whole Creative Commons family is modelled this way.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

cc:jurisdiction is bpicounty:Australia, which matches the country of the legal code URL, and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, which matches a grant for the duration of copyright. On the governing law: clause 13: "The construction, validity and performance of this Licence shall be governed by the laws in force in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia." The 2.0 Australian port named New South Wales, so the 3.0 port moved the forum. Note that the jurisdiction field records the legal home of the port, not a territorial limit on the grant: the grant itself is worldwide.
gap Rubric 8 odrl:prohibition none

The licence forbids technological protection measures and the vocabulary has no term for it. Clause 4A: "When You Distribute or publicly perform the Work, You must not impose any technological measures on it that restrict the ability of a recipient of the Work from You to exercise the rights granted to them by this Licence." Proposed term: dalicc:applyTechnicalProtectionMeasures, an odrl:Action to be used as an odrl:Prohibition. Not modelled, because bending an existing term would be worse than the gap.
gap Rubric 8 record none

The automatic termination of the licence on breach, and the survival of the definitions, the disclaimer, the limitation of liability and the miscellaneous sections, have no vocabulary term. Proposed term: dalicc:terminationOnBreach. The downstream offer, under which every recipient of the work or of an adaptation receives a licence directly from the licensor on the same terms, has none either. Proposed term: dalicc:downstreamOffer.
gap Rubric 8 record none

The moral rights clause of this port is not expressible. Clause 4E: "Moral rights remain unaffected to the extent they are recognised and nonwaivable at law." The clause names the right of integrity of authorship, the right of attribution of authorship and the right not to have authorship falsely attributed under Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). The restriction runs against the licensee. Proposed terms: dalicc:moralRightsRestriction and dalicc:moralRightsNonAssertion, so that the direction of the clause can be recorded.
gap Rubric 8 record none

The royalty collection arrangement is not expressible. Clause 3C reserves the royalty collection right, individually or through a licensing body such as a collecting society, for any Commercial use of the Work, and waives it for any exercise of the rights granted by the Licence. Proposed term: dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved, with a value saying whether the claim is reserved or waived and for which kind of use. This matters to a user of the model, because a licence that reads as royalty free can still leave a collecting society claim standing.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check with the 41 axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl reports no conflict, before and after the corrections, and the pre-review baseline listed none for this record either.
info Rubric 10 record none

Port of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. The deontic model of this record is identical to the parent CC-BY-NC-4.0, statement for statement: the same permissions with the same duties, the same prohibitions and the same set level duties. The only structural difference left is odrl:target, which the parent extends with dcmitype:Dataset. What differs is the jurisdiction, the language of the legal text and the clause texts, and the version specific clauses of 3.0 that the model does not carry, chiefly the express prohibition of sublicensing, the technological measures clause, the moral rights clause and the royalty collection arrangements. The compatibility checker cannot tell this record from the other records of the BY-NC element set, across all three versions and every jurisdiction the library holds.
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:promote was prohibited and no sentence of this text supports it. The statement was the library's reading of a legal default, that a copyright licence which says nothing about endorsement grants no right to it, and it sat in 519 of 581 records as a house convention. That reading is now an adopted dalicc:DefaultRule of the core dependency graph, which supplies it to every licence that is silent about the action, so a compatibility check reaches the same answer and the record states only what the text states. Removed on 2026-09-23; see section 13 of docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md.
major Rubric 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

The termination clause of this port reads: "This Licence and the rights granted to You under this Licence shall terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of the Licence." The licence ends automatically on a breach and this version of the text has no reinstatement clause, so dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and no dalicc:curePeriod is written, as on the unported record of the same version.

Settled in version 2 (1)

settled odrl:prohibition

The licence forbids sublicensing and the record does not say so. Clause 4A: "You are not granted the right to sublicense the Work." The vocabulary already has dalicc:sublicense, but no record in the library uses it and its skos:note says so, and the same sentence stands in every Creative Commons 2.0 and 3.0 record, so adding it to this review group alone would split the compatibility behaviour of one family. Proposed as one library wide correction, together with an update of the vocabulary note.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 identification detail and 1 prohibition, recorded the relation to the record this one was adapted from and recorded the review state. Later changes left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, recorded when the license ends on a breach and named the license the record itself is published under.

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11 changes
- added dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf dalicclib:CC-BY-NC-4.0
  
  Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
- added dalicc:licenseVersion "3.0"
  
  Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
- added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed
  
  Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
- added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date
  
  Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
- added dalicc:variantKind "jurisdiction-port"
  
  Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
- added dct:source <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/>
  
  Review finding The record carried cc:legalcode but no dct:source. The legal code page of the port states the canonical URL of the licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/, and the six 4.0 International parents carry exactly that pair, legal code plus deed. Added.
- added prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  Review decision Review decision 1: every Creative Commons record except the CC0 dedication, plus the Open Database License and the Open Data Commons Attribution License, forbids sublicensing in as many words.
- removed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The endorsement prohibition rested on no sentence of the text; the default rule for endorsement now supplies it.
- changed prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You are not granted the right to sublicense the Work."
- added dalicc:terminatesOnBreach "true"^^xsd:boolean
  
  Manual edit The termination clause of this port reads: "This Licence and the rights granted to You under this Licence shall terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of the Licence."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
Version 1

The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.