I get confused too. We had this issue of copying and copyright arise with our informal quilt group's annual quilt to be displayed in our local agricultural fair. We hold an in-house quilt raffle (not open to the public). To get a chance for the quilt, our members have to make a quilt square or help set the quilt and frame up or come out to the fair and hand quilt. There is no money involved. We invite the public to sit and quilt with us, hoping to get new members this way.
One year we chose a design featured in an issue of Fons&Porter's magazine--a quilt design that they also had purchased. We put the top together, set it up in the frame, displayed the issue of the Fons&Porter magazine, open to the page with the design on top of the quilt so that credit was given to the designer.
I e-mailed the magazine to make sure we were doing everything legally. Here is what they wrote back. "Each member of our group had to purchase the magazine or have a subscription to the magazine before we could use this design and display it." It turned out that several of us did have yearly subscriptions, but I pointed out that one can read this magazine at the local library, make a copy for one's own use, etc.
We went ahead as usual, but I can tell you we never quite understood this issue of everyone having to buy their magazine. Most of us canceled our subscriptions after this, deciding we would read the library's copy from then on. We never made copies for anyone else.
We felt that those who saw the quilt and then saw the magazine would buy the magazine if they were interested. It was as if "this was a case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face." We were advertising their magazine and the design within. We were engendering business. What else did the magazine want? :cry: