Hi,
I think some of you are familiar with licenses, so I'm hoping you can help guide me. I used to be a paper scrapper then I moved into digital scrapping several years ago. I've always done it for personal use, so the licensing has not been an issue. Through my volunteer work at the school, I'm going to be doing the school yearbook. I helped with a couple of pages this year, and found their background and element selections to be pretty poor. I was hoping to be able to upload some nicer elements and backgrounds.
My question is what type of license do any digiscrapping supplies I use need to have? This is a volunteer effort, ie, I'm not being paid. (Although the parents are paying for the actual cost to print the books.) If I buy kits I will not be reimbursed--it will be out of my own pocket as a donation.
Thanks!
Shannon
Hm. You may not be making money off it, but the school will as they sell the yearbooks. So, I would go with commercial use license, just to be safe. But I'm not a designer, so I am curious what others will say!
How many printed copies the school sells, in average?
I don't know yet. It's an elementary school, so I doubt they sell as many as a high school. I'm sure I'll find out more as I get more involved.
I'm asking now because I'm starting to keep an eye open for school related kits as I look for my other scrapbook elements.
I asked this because: S4H/S4O kind of license includes permission to sell in small business, usually homemade. some had a maximum of 50 printing copies, others 100, and so on. If I were you, if you still havent bought/downloaded the kits, I´d send an e-mail when you see any which you find interesting, to make sure, mainly before buying. I have done it some times, and always had permission granted for what I asked.
PS: Go to my freebies topic (on freebies forum) and check for my portion of Kid´s arts blogtrain. Maybe some parts are still up and have an usable license
@Shanon Lorien does have a point. I am doing some blog trains now and use a lot of CU stash to do so but I want to make unique alphas and because I have no intentions on "selling" (I am retired and don't want a job!) but would like to use whatever creating abilities I have to make "freebies." I contacted a couple of font designers to explain my situation and they were very kind to let me know that for what I wanted to do it would be okay. I think everyone knows that when schools do yearbooks the amount of profit is limited and therefore I would guess that many designers, if contacted, would be willing to allow you to use their products. I do have to say that there are many designers that don't necessarily have as good a quality check system as others so you do have to beware because the book may not come out as you planned in quality. If you find a site that has a good quality check system then you might even be able to contact some of those designers and see if they would donate to you...afterall it is for kids!
The donation idea is a great one!
If you find something you want to use, it's always worth it to email the designer and tell them what you want to do, you might very well get the response you want. I personally would give a lot of leeway to an education/school type project, but that's just me.
My thoughts exactly.
Thanks everyone!