What is a copyright?
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States and other countries to authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other creative works.This protection allows the creator exclusive rights to these works, and to determine who has the “right to copy” these works.
How can I find out who owns a copyright?
Some investigative work will be required. If the copyright owner is not listed outright on the work you wish to copy, you may need to directly contact the publisher of the work where you viewed the image to see if they know who the copyright owner would be. For web pages, you may need to contact the webmaster of the site or the company that produced it. For books it is recommended to contact the publisher.YearbookLife cannot provide copyright advice for you. It is your responsibility to do the necessary due diligence and provide us with this information.
In most cases it is easy to obtain permission from companies for logos and images by simply contacting them. Most professional clip art packages allow reproduction rights for the files you purchase. Other sources such as Getty Images (www.gettyimages.com), Landov (www.landov.com) or other image providers have special rates for schools purchasing photos for reproduction in yearbooks. You may also search for “Public Domain” images, which have limited or no rights restrictions.
You should begin the search immediately if you know you have possible copyrighted images. Any delay after submission of your yearbook to obtain permission will delay the delivery of your books!
What do I need to provide to be able to use a copyrighted work?
YearbookLife may require a satisfactory letter of verification from the copyright owner which grants you permission to use their work in your yearbook. In the case of purchased clip art or images, simply include a copy of your License Agreement, which should specify your rights to reproduce the images in your yearbook.Your yearbook may be placed “on hold” until all copyright issues have been cleared.
Can I quote poems or music lyrics?
Poems and lyrics may also be protected by copyright.It is advisable to get the rights from the author or publisher before using them.
1. Delete unwanted programs, these take up memory and clog your computer, delete every thing that you will not use.
2. Delete unwanted files :
I. Music you do not want
II. Pictures you do not want
III. If you play games such as Warcraft 3 or Counter strike, go manually into the optional downloads folder in you C: drive and delete downloaded maps and add-ons.
IV.Go into program files on your C: drive and delete folders for programs you do not use. ‘example’ if you have uninstalled Yahoo messenger, delete the yahoo messenger folder in program files.
3. Download www.ccleaner.com and run it, this is an excellent tool and will remove megabits, (and for me first time, 6 gigabytes) of pure junk and excess folders and files that are useless.
‘CCleaner is a freeware PC optimization tool.
It combines a system cleaner that removes unused and temporary files from your system and also a fully featured registry cleaner!
CCleaner allows Windows to run faster, more efficiently and gives you more hard disk space.
The best part is that it’s Small, Fast and Free!’ taken from www.ccleaner.com
4. Remove spyware and Adware from your computer system
5. Download a ram optimizer from www.yourwaresolutions.com, these are very good to maximize and free up your memory
6. De fragment your drive, Go to all programs – accessories – system tools – defragmentation and choose your main drive. Though doing this step last IS usually the best thing to do
7. Update graphics, Bios, Network drivers. From various sites, just Google your brand.
8. Clean you computer. Turn the power off, open your computer up and get the dust out, a compressed air can is very good for this. Ensure that you are not touching anything still on, hot, or that will break. This may also void your warranty so do make sure that doesn’t happen if you are going to attempt this step. It can help in overall performance though, because dust can clog the fan system of your computer
9. Run programs in lower resolution and lower graphics, do this to your taste, most games have a video effects options where you can do this. I personally recommend doing customized and lower texture and added particle and anti-aliasing extras. And keeping the character designs at high.
10. Use Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet explorer. There are a lot of articles on why this is a good idea, and lots of reasons. It can be downloaded at www.mozilla.org
11. Disk clean up
To begin disk cleanup:
Windows users: Click Start – Programs – Accessories – System Tools – Disk Cleanup. Then check the box next to the drives you want cleaned (check Drive C to clean your hard drive)
Mac users: Open Applications – Utilities – Terminal. Then type “sudo sh/etc/daily.”
13. Check for errors
Detect and Repair Disk Errors
1.Click Start, and then click My Computer.
2. In the My Computer window, right-click the hard disk you want to search for bad sectors, and then click Properties.
3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Tools tab.
4.Click the Check Now button.
5. In the Check Disk dialog box, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
and run CCleaners registry checker.
13. Clean up your desktop, put files in 1 large folder rather than many small ones, this boost up start up time by a lot.
14. Further speed up your boot-up by making sure you only start running programs you want.
15. Another way of boosting you boot up speed is to
go to start then run
Type in msconfig and then hit run
Click on the BOOT.INI tab at the top.
Over to the right there will be a box labeled Timeout with 30 in it. Change the 30 to a 3.
Wide selections of professionally designed yearbook covers (called stock covers) are available to any school who wishes to use them and personalize the front with their school’s name. With a stock cover, all you need to do is indicate your choice of design and the school name to be printed on it. YearbookLife will take it from there.
With a custom yearbook cover, you have the full creative license to design it using any backgrounds, art or photos you wish to use—you’re only limited by your imagination!
To switch between a stock and a custom yearbook cover or vice versa, you must first be logged in as the Admin since only the book’s Admin can make this change. If you do not see Admin in the top-level toolbar, shown in the screenshot below, then you are not logged in as the Admin.
Once you are logged in as the Admin, click on Admin in the top-level toolbar, shown in the above screenshot. Once there, click on the Book Settings tab in the second-level toolbar.
This will open the Book Settings tab. To change the cover options, click on the Cover Settings button.
Then, click on the dropdown under Cover Options and choose either Stock or Custom.
Once you have made that change, press the Save Settings button.
PSPA YEARBOOK CD
By now you should have received your PSPA yearbook CD from your school photographer. If you have not received it please contact the photographer as soon as possible to obtain your CD. We will gladly assist you installing your portraits.
ARE YOU RECEIVING OUR EMAILS?
Throughout the year we send numerous emails updating you on all aspects of the yearbook process. These emails are important and the information in them will help you create your yearbook with ease. Please be sure you have added us to your email address book.
CUSTOM COVER DEADLINE AND BOOK DEADLINE
The deadline to submit your custom cover is February 1, 2012. Please be sure to read the submission requirements found in your yearbook kit. Please contact us at 888-680-0143 with any question regarding your custom cover.
The yearbook deadline for most schools is March 15, 2012. Keep in mind, this is our Early Bird Deadline and any school ordering 100 books or more who submits their book by March 15 will receive a FREE autograph supplement and a 4% discount on the price of the book. Otherwise, yearbooks are due in 6-8 weeks before you would like them delivered to your school.
For help creating your yearbook in EZBook or Pictavo please visit the Help Menu in your software and take a look at all of the videos at our website:
https://www.yearbooklife.com/yearbook-video-gallery/
YEARBOOK CONTEST
We will be holding our Best Yearbook Contest to select the yearbooks that meet all of the requirements shown on the following link. All schools will be entered for a chance to win great prizes.
GET PAID FOR YOUR REFERRALS
We will pay you cash when you send a new school our way. Click the link below for more information:
Referrals
Online Yearbook Sales and Ad Sales (My Yearbook Sales)
Have you signed up to sell your yearbooks and/or parent dedications online? Click on the link below for more information.
http://partners.myyearbooksales.com/pf1
FACEBOOK
Be sure to follow us on Facebook to enter our contests, receive reminders and to get tips and tricks for creating your yearbook.
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