Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
Once you buy or receive a legal pattern, it's yours to give away or sell. You can not make a copy to give away or sell.
Exactly. EVEN if you sell it for a profit.
Consider at the Audibon book that sold for $11 million. If the copyright laws extended to every resale of the book the original publisher would still hold the rights to all subsequent sales of the book. Wouldn't that be nice?
Double exactly!
You aren't putting another "copy" of the item in question out into circulation. It's still the one copy of the pattern, the book, whatever.
So, yes, you can lend, sell, donate the pattern - even with a monetary gain for yourself, but it is still the SAME unit, not a duplicate.
And I know that all sounds so nit-picky today, but really, think about it, would you have ever though you'd have a printer or a scanner so easily available in your home or office, or even a kinko's 20 years ago?