Originally Posted by virgwid
I used to belong to a charity knitting group and we swapped patterns and books and such all the time. Were we breaking the law? I would think once I bought a book of patterns if I wanted to share it, shouldn't I be able to? And at work, we all read the same authors. One will buy a book and then it gets passed around. Cuts our reading expenses. If libraries can do this, why can't I? And what if I find a great quilting book in the library - I can't use the pattern??? Ok, now I'm getting a headache. :) I want to do the right thing, just confused as to what exactly that is! Virg
If you just swapped the original, that's fine. But if you took a purchased pattern & made 15 photocopies of it, that is illegal. Sure, who is going to turn you in? But I want to keep the designers in business & that is done thru actual sales of their designs.