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Title: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: chablis97 on March 24, 2005, 11:28:26 pm
I want to post a link to some cocktail cabinet plans I have drawn up. 
Does anyone have any suitable legal words I can include with the plan documents to stop them being used for commerical gain and to make it clear that I'm not liable for what ever they are used for, etc, etc.

Anything else I should be careful of?

Title: Re: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: DrewKaree on March 24, 2005, 11:36:25 pm
Put a big fat watermark across it and password protect the document with several variations of letters and numbers.

They may still sell your stuff, but at least they'll have to work to remove it to make any money off of you.

What format is it in, someone here can do it for you if you don't know how
Title: Re: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: chablis97 on March 24, 2005, 11:48:48 pm
Thanks.  I was intending to post them on my web site as a pdf.  I will format it in Word with a watermark and protect the pdf as much as possible with Acrobat.

Title: Re: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: DrewKaree on March 24, 2005, 11:51:33 pm
You can already do those things in Acrobat, you don't have to format back to Word unless you really really want to.
Title: Re: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: GGKoul on March 25, 2005, 12:58:38 am
Make sure you mark every page with your copyright and not for resale message.
Title: Re: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: paigeoliver on March 25, 2005, 02:55:26 am
Can you stick an animated gif in a PDF?

If so, set the main title logo to change to "If you paid money for this you were ripped off, this file will always be available for free" after about a minute or two.
Title: Re: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: JoeyJoeJo on March 26, 2005, 12:58:05 am
If I was you, I'd release them under the creative commons license.  You can customise it to what you want.  (i.e. no commercial use, etc) Check out this link to find out more.  This is what you use to customise the license.

http://creativecommons.org/license/
Title: Re: Legal stuff for my free plans?
Post by: chablis97 on March 26, 2005, 01:07:23 am
Excellent!
Thanks for all the advice guys!