Originally Posted by
JMCDA
It is the written instructions AND the patterns (line drawings) that are copyright protected. The owner of the original design has every right within the law to control the intended use of the design and if they say that the design is to be used for personal use only then that is all that can be done with their design both patterns and intstructions.
I suspect the differences between what you claim is the case (the resulting constructed items are covered by copyright) and what many others believe to be the case (those items are not covered by copyright) can be explained very simply. You are referring to Canadian copyright law and we are talking about US copyright law. There are multiple significant differences and the US law generally provides more freedoms for users of copyrighted material (e.g., Canada has Moral Rights, the US doesn't; the US has Fair Use exceptions, Canada doesn't).