[Web4lib] copyright and library home pages

[Drew, Bill]

Why don't you just ask them if it is okay to copy their design as a
place for you to start improving your own webpages?
You will probably get a yes from them.  I would answer that way.
Bill Drew 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Work MaKinne
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:38 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] copyright and library home pages

Our library website team has found another library's home page that does
everything we want ours to do. 
   
  We don't want to copy any source code, scripting, text, colors,
photographs, graphics, logos, etc.
   
  We do want to write our own code and create tables that mimic the
structure and layout using our own logo, flash, colors, graphics and
text, and place a drop down box in a similar place with our own
cgi-scripting. The result may be a similar "look and feel" done with all
of our own programming, text and design elements.
   
  Who knows enough about copyright to know how thin the ice is here? 
   
  Dawn
  deworkmakinne at desmoineslibrary.com