Originally Posted by
Christine-
Are you in the USA? If so, you're well meaning, I'm sure. You are wrong. Period. Even if you put the words " for personal use only" on your package, you have no legal basis to claim this 'rule' as part of your copyright. Read the "First Use Doctrine" which specifies what the copyright holder can and cannot do with a sewing pattern. You can NOT make any of the claims you wrote in your post. The Federal Trade Commission enforces the First Use Doctrine to protect consumers from unscrupulous copyright holders.
No, that poster is in Canada. Canadian copyright law is much more protective of the copyright holder, based on the principle that whomever creates a work controls how that work is used. Canadian copyright law gives the copyright owner the right to set a fee and conditions for every use of the work.
However, if a work created in one country is used in another country, then the laws of that country (the country of the user) apply. Therefore, no reason at all for US quilters to worry about where a pattern originated...US copyright law will apply for all of them.