Originally Posted by Pati- in Phx
But she does have the legal right to restrict your ability to just buy one pattern and make lots for sale without a pattern for each one. It has to do with depriving the author of income from the sale of the pattern to the individual who has the end product but without buying the pattern, but paying for the product.
Well put.
What I wonder about is again why the designer thinks that restricting the sale of items would lead to more pattern sales. People who buy finished quilts are not necessarily, indeed probably are not, people who will go buy the pattern and make their own.