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    Hi Guys - Thanks to everybody for submitting their really excellent work for the Christmas card event. I have now got them all downloaded on to my machine. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic Queenscourt Hospice was unable to get them on to their website in time due to staff absences and part time working.

    I have a favour to ask everybody. With your original consent being for your work to only be used for Christmas cards it stops Queenscourt from making any funds until next year. What I propose is, with your agreement, for Queenscourt and possibly other hospices to put your work on their websites and allow supporters to donate funds to make copies of your work for their own use or as gifts to family and friends. You will still own your copyright on your work and all you doing is giving them permission to make a copy. Hospices are really struggling to keep giving care to sick and terminally ill patients. With the epidemic reaching the current levels they will only struggle more and more.

    The hospice, and I, really appreciates the effort you put in to your work and your kindness in allowing them to try and generate some funding to help keep them afloat and looking after patients. If they can use your original submissions to the Holiday Spirit event during the year it would make life a lot less stressful for them. Can I ask everybody who entered a piece of work into the event to put a comment on here either agreeing to the change or asking me to remove their work from the ones going to Queenscourt. Not a problem either way.

    As a further thought, as the work will be on sale all year round, if you feel that you have a more summer or spring type of work that you can donate to the hospices then they would greatly appreciate it.

    Many thanks again.

    @Colin Hudson#1036 Colin, feel free to use anything I have already posted, any time of the year. Any future posts please just ask first. 🙂

    Thanks doggymommee8301. Your help, and hard work, is very much appreciated.

    I would never use anybody's work without asking first obviously as I value your ongoing support for the hospices.

      Hello there Colin, happy New Year!
      I’d be honoured for any of my pictures to be used for such a worth while cause.
      Best wishes xxx

        Hi Collin , tou have my permission to use my artwork submitted in the holiday spirit event.

        @Colin Hudson#1036 Feel free to use my holiday event submission. If there are others of interest I’ve posted please let me know. Thank you

        patriziad Thank you. If you post your work in the normal way and put a comment that I can use it, I will download with gratitude!

          ForestVueGallery Many, many thanks. You have had some excellent pieces posted. I will look through them and come back to you. All contributions will be gratefully accepted.

              @N Kav#1063 You work is magnificent. Thank you for your kind permission. I will let6 you know which ones I will use before I copy and include them.

                @Colin Hudson I just saw this! Absolutely fine. Please send them my word of thanks for everything they are doing 💙

                  @Colin Hudson#1068 👍great! You can use my water lilies and lake louise, canada photos.

                  @Colin Hudson#1072 Please refrain from giving out legal advice, unless you can back that up by a legal source.
                  While there may be local differences copying another persons work and using it in a commercial manner is seen as a copyright infringement in many countries.

                  Felix My apologies Felix - I was speaking from what little experience I have in such matters in the country I live in. I had not thought about the 'commercial manner' aspects of fundraising by the hospices but I can see your point. Apologies.