At Quilt Guild last week am attorney gave a talk.
He started with-Goodness all of you ladies will be needing my help someday-IF anyone of you here has been copying each others patterns and just giving them away to all that wants them. Then he laughed. He gave a great talk on copyright laws.
If I get a "FREE" pattern and someone wants it I always put
on the copy printed by permission of--then whomever I got it from.