copyright?
A friend of ours was incharge of the Copyright office in Washington,DC. When he retired about 10-12 yrs ago. The office was turned over to some younger people. He had all the copyrights in books with all the legal copies. Well , the young ones in front of him took all the books and threw them in the trash can. He told us at the time there was going to be problems. Geometry has been around since the beginning of time. It cannot be copyrighted and quilting is geometry. Some have made some great new designs using geomerty and the copyright is the way she has put them together with the angles of certain measurements and color. You can take the same design and add a fraction of an inch and you have a new design for a new copyright but there are only a certain number of ways to geometrically draw a design. So, some have said its is the method in which the design is sewn. To me, it is crazy. you can only cut a pie just into so many peices. It is like trying to copyright and idea in your mind. You cannot copyright a geometric its been here too long as for as I am concerned. Don't be afraid that some take offence. This has been going on since the beginning of them and the copyright actually belongs to God almighty, not us.