This has been eating at me and i really need to know the answer because i don't want to cross any copyright boundaries...

On my website, I have a portfolio to display my scrapbook LOs. I'm trying to figure out if it is ok to post LOs using elements that someone else created. I am not offering any of the LOs to sell to people. Just showing examples of work that I've done. I don't know if it would be misleading to show LOs w/ elements i did not create.

Whenever someone hires me to create a LO for them, I plan to only use my own elements.

The only thing I can think of is how if I were doing Paper Scrapbooking, I more than likely would be buying all my papers and elements, so then it would be ok, right? Or would i have to ask permission to make money off of them? Really what I'm charging for is my labor to put something together...

it's such a fuzzy issue to me and i really hope someone can clear it up....

i've read the articles about copyrights, and still am not sure what i should do...

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~~Jennifer~~
Mom to the most wonderful little boy in the world - Noah (3/27/04)
Wife to the love of my life - Patrick (married 11/1/01)

If you're planning on only using your own elements in work you sell then I wouldn't use layouts with other peoples elements in them. You're likely to get a customer who wants the exact same layout for themself and then you'd have to explain that you can't use the same elements because they are someone elses. I think it would save you a lot of hassles if you just display layouts made completely from your own work.

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Kim