I hesitate to bring this up because I don't know all of my facts..But I was just reading about this on someone's quilting site yesterday ( don't even know the date that it was written).. uuugh I can't remember who's, I do believe it was a blog....This person sold her patterns and or fabric etc, her site's very popular...
Anyway, she had dedicated a whole page on the subject of some recent McCalls article..Where McCalls made some kind of statement that from now on if someone had intentions of making money from selling a quilt/quilt show etc from a designers pattern...They had to first get written permission from the designer...
The lady had been flooded with emails (as had been many designers) asking if it were true and or for written permission... The lady was very upset about that article and said to consider this her "Blanket Statement of permission to use any of her patterns with the intent to sell ( the quilt made from her pattern Not the pattern itself)....All that she asked was that you gave credit to the pattern designer on the quilt lable and she posted an example ( the example also acknowledged the quilt makers longarmer)..Advising we do this with all lables
Another blogger had posted to her that a popular quilting show in her area had just let it be known that they would be following the rules from that McCalls article and checking permission slips...
Personally I would aknowledge the designer on my lable and make sure to read the rules of any quilt show enteries...I don't see how they could enforce this anyway...
Please note that I am paraphrasing heavily here as well as having just woken up and have not had my second cup of coffee yet (laugh)... If anyone knows of this McCalls article or this site ..Do feel free to correct me... I'll look for the site I read all this on and post the link If I find it...
:: stumbling off toward the coffee pot>>>