Originally Posted by Conniequilts
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 :(
This has been a topic thoroughly discussed, and yet, I have to admit that I just don't get it either. I do understand the concept of original design, and wanting to protect that, but if one really thinks about the quilts and designs that have been made over the years and years and years, just how many originals ways can you put squares, triangles, rectanges and circles. Methods may be new, as our machines and accessories improve, and fabric choices certainly are creative. Some times the more I read about this, the more confused I become. I have purchased patterns, but like so many others, I do have the ability to look at a pattern and figure it out. Again, squares, rectangles, triangles and circles....