Originally Posted by
JulieR
If you buy a DVD it is NOT yours with which to do "as you please;" if you make a profit by showing it to or copying it for others, you are in violation of federal law.
Why is everyone so up in arms about fabric? It isn't different. Neither is buying a pattern that states you cannot reproduce it, or create items for sale from it. It isn't a new concept and I have fabric and patterns going back years that carry this restriction.
This whole thread just plain astounds me. And not in a good way.
Julie, do you quilt commercially? If so, do you have other sources to purchase fabric than through retail resellers? Depending on your scale, perhaps you could buy wholesale and possibly make limited license agreements at purchase time in order to use special fabrics.
When you compare to a DVD, which you could copy and resell as opposed to a fabric which becomes part of a manufacturing process - there must be some legal language not to 'use' the fabric in a garment or quilt or whatever, as opposed to buying bulk fabric bolts and reselling them on eBay or at flea markets etc.