Copyright is a type of property that is founded on a person's creative skill and labour. Copyright protects the form or way an idea or information is expressed, not the idea or information itself. Copyright is not a tangible thing.
It is made up of a bundle of exclusive economic rights to do certain acts with an original work or other copyright subject-matter.
These rights include the right to copy, publish, communicate (e.g. broadcast, make available online) and publicly perform the copyright material.
Copyright creators also have a number of non-economic rights.
These are known as moral rights.
This term derives from the French droit moral.
Moral rights recognised in Australia are the right of integrity of authorship, the right of attribution of authorship and the right against false attribution of authorship.

Copyright is distinct from physical property A clear distinction exists between the copyright in a work and the ownership of the physical article in which the work exists. For example, an author may own the copyright in the text in a book even though the physical copy of the book will be owned by the person who purchases it. Similarly, the purchaser of an original painting does not have the right to make copies of it without the permission of the owner of copyright: the right of reproduction remains with the copyright owner who is generally the artist

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What law governs copyright in Australia?

Copyright Act 1968
Copyright exists in works and other subject-matter by virtue of the Copyright Act 1968. The only exception to this is in relation to certain limited prerogative rights of the Crown in respect of copyright in Acts of Parliament

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What is interllectual property?

Copyright is part of an area of law known as intellectual property.
Intellectual property law protects the property rights in creative and inventive endeavours and gives creators and inventors certain exclusive economic rights, generally for a limited time, to deal with their creative works or inventions.
This legal protection is designed as a reward to creators to encourage further intellectual creativity and innovation, as well as enabling access by the community to the products of intellectual property.
Because intellectual property protects rights, rather than physical property, intellectual property is an intangible form of property.
It is property which cannot be seen or touched. Intellectual property is the general name given to the laws covering patents, trade marks, designs, circuit layouts, plant breeder's rights and copyright.
Each of these forms of intellectual property is protected by a specific Act of the Commonwealth Parliament. The framework for these Acts is largely based on Australia's obligations under international treaties.

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Am I safe buying images and products from your website?

The short answer is yes.
All images shown on my website are either created by myself or purchased with a commercial license that does not require I aknowledge the creator of that image and/or design.
Any cut files created are also purchased or designed by me.

If you send me your logo to use on a physical item that you ask me to create, I’m of the understanding that you own that logo/design and cannot be held responsible for misue of files that you have sent to me.