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Ro 
What Scraplifting is:
* Using enough elements from someone's layout to inspire you to create your own masterpiece that it is clear that you have used a certain portion of someone else's ideas. Examples of this may include:
---The way colors are used
---The way embellishments are used
---The way the page is laid out
---The way the papers are used
---The techniques you have used
It is considered polite online gallery behavior to state in your description of your layout post who created a layout that inspired you enough that you scraplifted a large portion of it. You should not submit a scraplifted layout to a magazine for publication, as you are profiting from someone else's ideas and you will just hurt the person that you are intending to honor by scraplifting.
Scraplifting is not:
*A DIRECT COPY of someone else's layout. That is simply duplication and it is not considered to be polite gallery behavior to post such a layout. It is especially wrong to submit a copied layout to a magazine for publication as you are using another person's ideas to profit.
*Having a small idea you see jog your brain into coming up with a creative idea of your own. This is called inspiration and all creative thoughts are built upon seeing something in the world that makes your mind spin off in its own direction.
Ideas cannot be copyrighted. Expressions of ideas can be copyrighted.
Anytime you directly copy an expression of an idea you are breaking copyright.
* Using enough elements from someone's layout to inspire you to create your own masterpiece that it is clear that you have used a certain portion of someone else's ideas. Examples of this may include:
---The way colors are used
---The way embellishments are used
---The way the page is laid out
---The way the papers are used
---The techniques you have used
It is considered polite online gallery behavior to state in your description of your layout post who created a layout that inspired you enough that you scraplifted a large portion of it. You should not submit a scraplifted layout to a magazine for publication, as you are profiting from someone else's ideas and you will just hurt the person that you are intending to honor by scraplifting.
Scraplifting is not:
*A DIRECT COPY of someone else's layout. That is simply duplication and it is not considered to be polite gallery behavior to post such a layout. It is especially wrong to submit a copied layout to a magazine for publication as you are using another person's ideas to profit.
*Having a small idea you see jog your brain into coming up with a creative idea of your own. This is called inspiration and all creative thoughts are built upon seeing something in the world that makes your mind spin off in its own direction.
Ideas cannot be copyrighted. Expressions of ideas can be copyrighted.
Anytime you directly copy an expression of an idea you are breaking copyright.
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Wendy L
29 November 2010 - 04:57 PM
"Anytime you directly copy an expression of an idea you are breaking copyright."
So when we enroll in a Scrap Girls class and you send us the materials used in the project, does the page we make following along, step-by-step, constitute "breaking copyright," or is it okay to keep that project for our own personal photo album but just not submit it to the gallery?
Thanks for the clarification
Wendy L
(New Digital Scrapper)
So when we enroll in a Scrap Girls class and you send us the materials used in the project, does the page we make following along, step-by-step, constitute "breaking copyright," or is it okay to keep that project for our own personal photo album but just not submit it to the gallery?
Thanks for the clarification
Wendy L
(New Digital Scrapper)
Ro
10 December 2010 - 12:42 PM
It is fine to copy the layouts in a class exactly. In a class setting, the teacher means you to follow them.
The directly copy a layout issue comes in if you see something in a gallery, love it, and do exactly what they did - no moving around, no adding your own ideas, taking away things that you don't like as well - exactly. It is common to be inspired by other people's works. But what happens to me is I start looking at something I like, then as I start working on it, it morphs to something of my own because I'm unique. Often, I end up with something that is completely unrelated to the inspiration layout!
Hope that helps!
The directly copy a layout issue comes in if you see something in a gallery, love it, and do exactly what they did - no moving around, no adding your own ideas, taking away things that you don't like as well - exactly. It is common to be inspired by other people's works. But what happens to me is I start looking at something I like, then as I start working on it, it morphs to something of my own because I'm unique. Often, I end up with something that is completely unrelated to the inspiration layout!
Hope that helps!
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