These copyright laws can be very confusing and misleading. I understood copyright as you could not copy or reproduce to paper pattern itself to sell as your own, not the finished product. If we sell a cake made from a recipe out of Betty Crocker Cookbook, are we suppose to get permission from the publisher to sell the cake. If I add a little more sugar and vanilla flavor, do we call that our original recipe or is it still an original Betty Crocker recipe. Quilt patterns and recipes have been around forever how do anyone truely know if it is original. Is it just possible for many years people were glad to share patterns and recipes and let others twik them to their liking to be called their own.