My Thoughts On My Tutorials and my Terms

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Recently, I have been asked many questions regarding my tutorials. I hope to answer your concerns here.

CURRENT WEB CIVICS
Due to tutorial thefts and tutorials being copied and pasted into AOL E-mail Groups, many tutorial writers have either taken their sites down, password protected the tutorials, or encrypted them so that you cannot even print them or save the tutorial for working off-line. You will not find that happening at Moon's Designs.

WHY I WRITE TUTORIALS
I write my tutorials to help others learn different techniques and filters when using PSP. Many of my users are on dial-up connections. Many are overseas and pay for their online time. I cannot justify encrypting my tutorials. If my users can't print them or view them off-line, then they won't be doing my tutorials nor learning from them. If they can't do them and learn from them, why bother to write them?

Many tutorial writers have in their terms that the creations they make from doing the tutorial are for personal, non-profit use. These same tutorial writers claim copyright to the very image they are trying to teach you to make ~~ such as a Teddy Bear. Again, I cannot justify this attitude. It is you who add the decorations and final touches to the end creation. It is yours to do with as you please. If you can make some money after learning something I have taught you, then more power to you. How can anyone claim copyright to a teddy bear? He has been around for 100 years! I don't claim copyright to any of my images in my tutorials. What I do claim copyright on is the tutorial itself ~~ the words that I use and the way I explain things.

WHAT I ASK FROM YOU
I ask that my tutorials not be copied and pasted into e-mail. The reasoning is quite simple. Even though the groups have no forwarding of emails in their rules, the emails DO get forwarded. Eventually the copyright information and who the original tut writer is gets removed. The tutorial then gets put up on a website because they don't know if it is available elsewhere and you don't have the opportunity to try my other tutorials.

I ask that Yahoo Groups e-mail me when they are going to be using my tutorial in their group. This is common courtesy.

Someone recently asked me if I would put my tutorials on CD so they would have them available all in one place. I am considering doing this, BUT this would only be done as a convenience for those who would like my tutorials on a CD. My tutorials would still remain online for free.

MY PROMISE TO YOU
The long and short of it is that Tutorials by Moon's Designs will always be available online. My tutorials will not be encrypted or put in an .exe file. My tutorials will be available for you to save to your hard drive for off-line use. My tutorials will be available to you for printing. What you create from learning while doing my tutorials is yours to do with as you please. You do not have to press an "I Agree" button to get to my tutorials. Now, let's go do some tutorials! Thank you for listening ~~ Patti.