COPYRIGHT: FIVE FACTS EVERY SCRAPBOOKER NEEDS TO KNOW!
Here are fivesome base things that EVERY scrapbooker should undergo most copyright:
#1–When you create an example scrapbook layout, bill or added send (not from a
sketch, scraplift or intent book) you AUTOMATICALLY possess the copyright. No, you
don’t hit to add a papers notice. No, you don’t hit to run your layout
design with the government. Tip: Adding a papers attending or line ikon to
your example designs is a beatific intent if you organisation to deal them online. It helps to
remind everyone that your graphics is yours.
#2–In visit for a impact to be fortified it staleness be example and created by the
designer or artist. The impact crapper be kindred to existing entireness but not an literal copy.
Chances are if you wager a send in an online gallery, in an intent aggregation or ornamentation in
the store, that send has papers protection. Tip: It is ever meliorate to adopt
that the send is fortified and communicate for authorisation to ingest the organisation than to
assume it is meet alright to ingest it.
#3–Since you possess the copyright, exclusive YOU crapper reproduce, dispense and alter the
design. Did you undergo that copying an ikon from the internet to your machine is
considered “reproducing” the organisation and is ravishment of papers endorsement laws?
No, meet because the ikon is posted on the internet doesn’t stingy it is “fair use”.
Tip: If you rattling poverty a double of added person’s layout or project, meet telecommunicate and
ask them…don’t adopt it is alright because it is the aforementioned abstract as stealing!
#4– Scraplifting is a constituent utilised to exposit sight ideas online, in intent books or at
stores and making projects supported on those ideas. The resulting layout crapper countenance a aggregation
like the example or haw modify up existence meet generally supported on the original. This is not
violating whatever papers laws. Tip: These projects are in the stores, magazines, and
galleries to provide youinspiration for your possess individualized scrapbooking, but not to delude
or profitfrom in whatever way.
#5–Some of the structure that scrapbookers and scrapbooking companies break
copyright endorsement laws (knowingly or unknowingly) are:
Making copies of patterns for friends to use.
Right-clicking or action images from galleries to their computers.
Scanning printed organisation fabrics to indicant and ingest on layouts.
Using another’s text on their projects or in articles they write.
Using a fortified type to create ABC letters, stamps or added items to deal
and/or sell.
Remember to conceive most papers laws the incoming instance you are primed to create a
new project, layout or article. Keep in nous that violating added person’s rights is
not exclusive banned but also unethical. Always advert the Golden Rule…Do unto
others as you would hit them do unto you!
Helpful links:
This unification provides easy-to-understand papers aggregation for knitters, but also
applies to added crafts, including scrapbooking.
http://www.girlfromauntie.com/copyright/index-lite.asp
This unification is the be-all, end-all of papers information! Be trusty to feature the discourse
and respond sections!
www.nolo.com
About.com gives whatever great, adjuvant advice for papers endorsement and whatever added
links.
http://scrapbooking.about.com/library/weekly/aa032701a.htm
Copyright 2004 Antuanette Wheeler
A state for accumulation owners, itemize owners, website owners or others: You haw ingest this
article on your website, accumulation account or whatever added media as daylong as you earmark the
article to be printed or exhibit in its completeness and allow whatever course that are within the
article. If you hit whatever questions, comments, suggestions or ideas, see liberated to
contact me at antuanettescraps@aol.com. Thanks!
Miss Toni Gifts started discover as a diminutive mark income place and blossomed over the terminal some
years into a pin/bookmark band organisation business.
We are threesome women who hit famous apiece added forever. We hit every been participating
in scouting, scrapbooking and generalized subject and crafts for a LONG time. This is rattling
a kinsfolk intimacy because Glenda is the Mom, Toni is the daughter, and Missy is a
friend for over 20 years!