My favorite purchased kits include elements that are photographs of antique and more recent vintage objects, such as toys, kitchen items, etc. I have several vintage objects I would like to photograph and include in a kit/layout for selling purposes. I understand there are copyright laws applied to printed materials. Are there similar laws applied to objects? I imagine objects that depict licenced characters are off limits, and popular name brands, like Fisher Price. Are there any other objects off limits?

Any information in this department would really be appreciated.

Thanks,

Kady

Hmmm...maybe a designer might know?

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I guess I'll just assume certain photo objects are fine to use in kits, since many designers have done so. I don't think they would break copyright laws. My guess is that objects that can't be traced back to a specific company are okay to use (like antiques or generic items). That's generally what I've seen in most kits.

But if I hear anything to the contrary I'll let everyone know.

Kady

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/tra...lic_Domain.htm

The link above is to a site that has a pretty good chart of what's in the public domain and what's not. To be safe, photograph items that are generic. For instance, an ordinary basketball is fine. But one with the brand name on it would be something I'd avoid.

Antiques are, for the most part, a safe bet. Be careful of antiques with trademarked images. It's not unusual for an image to be in the public domain in terms of copyright but to be trademarked.

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That's a great link, Kathryn. Thanks so much for your help!

Kady

Hi there,
I'm new here and rather new to digiscrapping (I've been paper scrapping for a while and am no stranger to Photoshop though).

I've got a different question - what about creating elements on the PC from scratch that look like paper scrapbook items? For example, I liked the new Bazill really big brads, the polka dot kind, and I made a pretty good imitation (Just a circle, then deleted smaller circles that have almost the same spacing as the real brad but not quite, embossed, pretty simple all in all). But I can imagine this is questionable. I have a kit that has a polka dot ribbon that looks a lot like something I've seen in a scrapbook store though, same spacing of dots etc.

So I'm confused. I'd like to try and make elements, the process of creating something like that is exciting but I'm not the greatest at coming up with an idea completely from scratch, so I thought I'd try creating things that look like things from my own paper scrapbooking supplies.

Same thing for paper - I know it's not done to scan paper and use that, but what if you try to make something (very?) similar from scratch?

I'd love to hear what you all think...