Hello everyone, Almost everything has been finalised in my story. Only the info about the creators (Author and illustrator) is missing and I need to have a professional picture taken of me and my daughter, Evita (the illustrator), but I won't have the pic until mid November :(. Re the font type - I used Arial. Should I change to Times New Roman? I hope you can find a few minutes to write a comment on this almost-final draft of my story. I have a question: as you know Evita has done the illustrations, but the background was a bit greyish. I asked a graphic designer friend of mine to whiten the background for me and to do a few minor tweaks. I would like to ask her in the future to help me with the next books in the series, too. I like giving credit where the credit is due - where could I mention Stella's name? https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i1oWSFC_8YNVQq0o9OyIj0wYQMGjDlh1
Now that we have a space in this group for "Works in Progress," would you mind re-posting the one you're going to be working on over there? Sorry!
ReplyDeleteDorothy Zemach I can move posts within the group, and just did that with Laura's post here.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
ReplyDeleteDorothy Zemach this is what I wrote. I was asking about copyright in the live session when we got some connection problems. I'll ask for permission. The thing is like this: the story was written by one person and the illustrator is another person. I think I'll have no problem with the story itself. However, I should write to the illustrator because I used some of his pics. Do you agree? What should I say?
ReplyDeleteLaura Perrotta It depends who owns the rights to the illustrations. It's possibly the illustrator, possibly the publisher. So first you have to figure out who owns the copyright, and then contact that person or company. It's possible they will ask you things like in what countries the book will be sold and projected sales (which of course is hard to answer, I know!). For print books, they would normally ask what our print run is (how many copies), but of course that's not how ebooks and print-on-demand paperbacks work, so perhaps you could just explain that.
ReplyDeleteImagine English School So... I got a little lost. Which is the version that you will be working with in this class? I looked at the Word doc. Of course with an ebook, you can't have an image next to text--but you could have it below or above. Would that work?
ReplyDeleteAlso, what is your name? I see only Imagine English School, but then I don't know who that is. :)
ReplyDeleteDorothy Zemach sorry Dorothy! I have two accounts: Laura Perrotta and Imagine, same person here!
ReplyDeleteDorothy Zemach I'm thinking of using something else. What I did is a whole project to use in the classroom. However, I'm afraid I won't be able to use it as an ebook.
ReplyDeleteLaura Perrotta I think it would be very complicated for you with all the copyright issues. Also, who knows how long it would take the parties involved to respond. I'm repeating Dorothy's course because I didn't manage to finish what I had originally planned the first time round - I was overambitious. It's better to use something shorter and simpler to learn the process, I think. So, what's your new idea? :)
ReplyDeleteLaura Perrotta ha, OK, I was a little confused! But now I know it's you, so you can post from either account. I do think copyright is going to take a long time to find out about. Also, I'm not sure the formatting will come out the way you want it to... it might be best to choose something else? But you could do, for example, a teacher's guide that explains how to teach that story the way you do, that other teachers could use with the book. Would that work?
ReplyDeleteDorothy Zemach If I write "based on Pete the Cat: I love my white shoes", is it legal? Also, can I use the image of another cat so I don't have problems with the illustrator?
ReplyDeleteLaura Perrotta You can certainly mention the title of a book. But you can't normally use any lines from it without permission.
ReplyDeleteLaura Perrotta Also in the Word doc that I checked, you have several songs that belong to someone else... you also couldn't publish those.
ReplyDeleteHow about a book of activities for young learners, but not tied to Pete the Cat? Many of the activities there could be done independently, or with other books, I think.
Dorothy Zemach Thanks! I've posted another idea. :)
ReplyDelete