Glossary of terms
Administrative restriction – a limitation imposed on use or re-use of information due to an administrative decision. For example, if another agency provides your agency with information under an administrative arrangement, such as a memorandum of understanding, which contains conditions prohibiting your agency from passing the information on to another agency or an external (third) party.
Authority – means you and/or your agency has the permission to license the work, both legally and administratively (e.g. delegated beneficial use having been granted under a standard or policy).
Confidential information – information that is confidential by nature or circumstance and relating to business or operations of a party (including, but not limited to, trade secrets, drawings, know-how, technical and financial information, source and object code, business and marketing plans, projections, and other information of whatever description and in whatever form).
Commercialisation – in the context of this website refers to an undertaking to exploit certain information or data for commercial gain in commercial markets (e.g. research data created in partnership with a pharmaceutical company to manufacture and market a new drug).
Input – content that is not original and has been incorporated from other sources. In such cases the input itself will need to be examined to confirm that appropriate permissions have been given to include it in the material.
Material – the publication or other work you wish to review using the GILF licensing review process.
Moral rights – the right of integrity and authorship. It provides the right of attribution of authorship and the right to not have authorship falsely attributed, particularly as conferred by the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).
Original content – content that is original to the material. It is content that has not been incorporated from other sources.
Personal information – information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent or can reasonably be ascertained from the information or opinion.
Publisher – the party that has the legal authority to publish or distribute the information product.
Rights holder – the individual or entity that holds or controls certain intellectual property rights in an input, such as copyright.
Statutory restriction – a limitation, through law or regulation imposed on the use of information. A statutory provision may expressly prohibit an agency from disclosing or making information available.
