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In that case, I tell them what I am doing and offer them the options of
"owning" the template. I have been turned down a few times, leaving me
rather generic templates I can use again, if I want.
These are my own design and I can use them again.
And can you copyright a template? I have looked up copyright and I don't
think you can.... It seems the content is the part that gets copyrighted...
A template is simply the look and feel which can make the content easier to
understand... I don't know.
sharon
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And then you said...
|And if the client didn't ask you to create the template, but you had to
|create a template anyway because they didn't have one? I mean, you can't
|create a user guide without creating a style guide/template for it. . .
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