Old 08-27-2010, 04:07 AM
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Fons and Porter has ONE registered copyright for a magazine in 2000. Assuming they did hold a valid copyright on the pattern or on the design, once they sell you the pattern they have sold you the right to make the item and then sell it. Unless there is a mutual signed agreement stating otherwise. In 1908 the Supreme Court ruled a copyright owner cannot impose use restrictions on something they have sold by simply placing a statement on the copyrighted item. They must have a written contract. Likewise, saying after the sale that there are use restrictions are not enforceable.
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