Moree & District Historical Society and Moree Plains Museum Code Of Ethics.

Moree & District Historical Society Inc. and its members are conscious that collecting, collating, and sharing information about people, living and deceased, is an essential element of family history.

Responsible family historians respect the law and the feelings of others and will always:

• seek by all reasonably available means to inform themselves about the legal principles in force from time to time governing the protection of copyright and of personal privacy;
• observe the legal rights of copyright owners, by copying or distributing any part of their works only with their permission or to the extent allowed under the copyright law’s fair use provisions;
• be sensitive to the distress that revelations of criminal, immoral, bizarre or irresponsible behaviour may bring to family members;
• obtain specific consent from living people that they are agreeable to further sharing of information about themselves;
• inform people who provide information about their families of the ways it may be used, carefully recording and observing any conditions they may impose on the use of it;
• be sensitive to and aware of cultural considerations when dealing with information that is culture-specific;
• recognize that legal rights of privacy may limit the extent to which information from publicly available sources may be further used, disseminated, or published; and
• that members and non-members recognise that all information collected by the group, not subject elsewhere to copyright, is Copyright to Moree & District Historical Society Inc. and no information is being used for any purpose (except as legally allowed for personal and educational use) unless MDHS gives its prior written consent to the intended use.