This will tick lots of people off I am sure (and I apologize ahead of time).
Can any of you, who have copyrighted your patterns, prove you have NOT ever repeated a naturally created pattern from someone back in the 1800's? Before copyright laws existed?
If you can't, then how can you copyright it, how can you call it original?. It is not someone else's work and you are "stealing" credit from them?
Are you calling it original because you took "their" original blocks and placed them in a differnt order?
I don't know, I'm sure someone is now angry with me and wants to argue and I apologize, but am thinking nothing is original cuz it all started WAY BACK WHEN.
Just my right or wrong thoughts again, don't hate me :(