Originally Posted by
BellaBoo
Anyone can make a quilt to look like any quilt picture. That is not violating the copyright. It's not that hard to figure out most of them without a pattern. EQ7 will import any quilt picture and isolate the blocks to trace and then print out the block pieces. If it was illegal it wouldn't be in the program and it's been in MS Paint program for decades.
This is simply not true. You can copy MOST quilts, but some of them are original works of art, and it is a violation of copyright to copy them. For instance, Janet Fogg is an outstanding quilt artist. She does not make patterns for her quilts, because she considers them to be original works of art. It is a violation of copyright to copy these quilts.
http://janetfoggquilts.home.comcast....lts/index.html
I wonder if you wrote your comments with tongue in cheek, because it's possible to use almost any software program in an illegal way.