Originally Posted by
rebeljane
If I bought a pattern then it is mine and I will do what I want with it, as long as I don't copy the pattern and try to sell it as my own. Any way I looked at her patterns and they are nothing startling, I wouldn't buy them.
Exactly. McCall's and Simplicity sell patterns for clothing and people buy them, make the clothing and sometimes sell the clothing made from the pattern. McCall's and Simplicity have no claim on the profit from those sales. But if someone repackaged the pattern and sold it as their own design, then McCall's and/or Simplicity could come after them. Many things are in the public domain and seems to me a lot of quilt patterns are, as the poster who pointed out that a Lone Star is a Lone Star is a Lone Star.