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Recently the topic that has been on the tip of the tongue of many around me is GIVING CREDIT! At work, my boss has been asking my colleagues and I do come up with a complete guide. We were using parts of information from some books and a large chunk from another single source. From the beginning of the whole discussion, we were careful that we were copying wholesale especially when it comes to books about plagiarism or copyrights - for fear of being sued. My boss and I kept reading the fine prints with regards to how much we are allowed to use the information. We are no legal whiz, so we had to break up each and every phrase just to make sure we understood and know where we stand! We never DENIED that we took info from the sources so I added a footnote of "adaptation", giving CREDIT to the original authors for their brilliant work, especially HARDWORK.

I found that GIVING CREDIT is also really important in the daily life around me! Even in SB, where layouts, ideas, and techniques are so easily available on the net, gallerys, blogs, etc. I always wonder if the layout I make is closely following anyone's. Granted, I am not a genius in creating stuff and often I am inspired by what others have done and I would like to attempt it as well. I feel it is COMMON COURTESY to ask for PERMISSION to attempt something along the same lines as the ORIGINAL CREATOR, rather then just rip it off and get comments like "wow you are so talented", when IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY NOT AS I WAS JUST FOLLOWING SOMEONE ELSE'S CREATION?

For this layout, I GIVE CREDIT to:

Cousin J - who always blow me off with her fabulous layouts and most recently her lines of album covers!

jamie waters - love her photography, and clean simple lines in her layouts!

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to everyone around me *near & far* who INSPIRE me everyday!

I GIVE MY CREDITS and *hugz* to you all!