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 Miss J.Sabir
 
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							| Dear Friends,                  I need your help for solving my confusion....I had made lots of certificates for my school kids.I want to share those certificates with you all but I m scare to upload them.....bcoz I m always blamed that my uploads are stolen although they r not.....So,plz help me should upload them or not?....waiting for your reply friends....                                               Thank you...                                                           Miss J Sabir HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF U...... |  11 Apr 2009      
					
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 eng789
 
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							| If they aren �t stolen then you have nothing to worry about. |  11 Apr 2009     
					
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 Jayho
 
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							| You need to think about where you got your material from: - If it was from another website do you have that owner �s permission to upload it to another website?   - If it was from a  book what does the copyright statement say?   - If you designed everything from scratch yourself using your own software then all is well - go ahead   So the questions you need to ask yourself are: Where is the frame from? where are thepictures/clipart from?   If you are in doubt then leave it out.     |  12 Apr 2009     
					
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 alien boy
 
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							| The most important things to consider are: 
 - Are the images, borders, certificates being used in a way where  �fair use � applies. Essentially  �fair use � means that you can �t use a picture (or other resource) in a way that the original owner makes their living from (e.g. MES English is a business that is directly marketing to ESL as their business - so you cannot use their materials without their permission. Microsoft, however, do not have a direct business interest in ESL teaching so you can use their clipart without any problem).  �Fair use � applies to materials that are used for education & are distributed freely for personal use.
 
 - Do your certificates meet the guidelines for a valid upload? Remember, they 
        must be your own creations and have some defined way of using them as an ESL resource (please read all of this thread)
 
 Cheers,
 AB
 
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