I really am not going to spend my time worrying about this as I know some of these people would really like to put fear into us but I just will not use any magazines as there is plenty of stuff on the internet that way we can quilt in our group and still exchange patterns worry free also I am sure a lot of this article is true or we would not be seeing all these spin off patterns that we are getting and there are many of them the ones that comes to mind are twister spin off of square dance----one block wonder spin off of stack and whackand many many others and these people are really doing it for money where with friends we trade patterns I can see no harm in it as long as I leave the magazines alone where these people does not want their patterns used I will quilt for fun even the fabric companies has tons of patterns so just sew
quilt have fun and enjoy