Originally Posted by C.Cal Quilt Girl
Many valid points above !!
Let me throw a rock in the pot !! Have paid for internet services, and it seems like very little is private if on line, Many patterns are years old, the work and effort should count for something, are painters under the same CR for painting a blade of grass.
OK out my spoon comes.
I am also a folk artist. I have published a few patterns in the trade mags. I got paid well for these patterns. I could less who makes and sells from my pattern, that is the reason I put it in a mag to begin with. I think a lot of copyright is misunderstood. In the painting world. Once you purchase a pattern or a book, the copyright states that you can make or paint for profit or whatever, you just can't sell or copy the orginal pattern to sell or give away.
I think Magazines copyright the material in the mag for the express purpose that they may not be massed produced by some company or the patterns copied and sold. I don't think they mean that you can't make to selll the product or give away.