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Copyright free designs

Copyright free designs
The copyright limitations make it very hard for professional web designers, providers of internet content, desktop publishers and other creative personnel to work fast and efficient, because they cannot use existing designs, whereby they have to create their own. These limitations prolong their work and decrease the revenue, because they cannot accept additional work. There used to be copyright free clip arts available, even Microsoft used to ship a library together with their desktop publishing tool, Microsoft Publisher, which they stopped doing for some reason. Corel still releases additional content with their creative publishing suite, as is Adobe, which Creative Suite 4 is being released shortly. But copyright free designs for web publishing used to be unavailable. In recent time commercial providers multiplied and whole packages of pre designed templates and other content became available online. Because of that development and the development regarding the copyright free photographic material availability, some sites now offer free designs which are not exactly copyright free, but free to use without having to pay a license fee. What is the difference? A completely copyright free design would mean that you may use it without limitations, perhaps even change it a bit and claim it’s yours. Furthermore, you don’t have to credit the original developer, you have no time limitation how long you may use it, there is no protection on the design, structure, code or anything else that was implemented. A copyrighted design, but with a free license to use, allows the user to use the design, but he or she is not allowed to change it, modify it, claim ownership, distribute it for profit or hide copyright information. If using a copyrighted design, no matter if the license to use was purchased or the design was provided for free, certain limitations apply, which are listed in the legal section of the site, from which the designs are offered for free or membership download. A membership download means the design is essentially free, but to access the designs, you have to pay a site usage fee, which amounts to the designs actually not being free, but I guess it’s a public relation idea. The predominant download offering are the web sites with designs offered for sale, where you may buy a license to use for a certain amount of money and under predefined conditions. But no matter how you got the design, if it is copyright protected, restrictions apply. If you paid for the license use, or if you got the license to use for free, you should make sure you read the terms of use and understand the limitations defined.

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