Originally Posted by
bigsister63
This subject is always good for discussion! Did you ladies read the entire info given on this site? I think that much of her info is correct. Also she lists several other sites with agreeing info. Dianne specifically says that you may not post pic if it is to SELL a quilt made from a pattern. When you make a quilt from a copyrighted pattern you are in essence "copying" that pattern /"reproduced in the finished product"so you can not sell the quilt . However you can ask for "Permission" to sell quilt and f you get it then you can proceed. Check you books and patterns. Most have the same copyright information. I have one book that says " it is permissioible for the purchaser to creat the designs contained herein and sell hem at fairs, bazaars, and craft stores"There are hundreds of patterns that are consided "public domain" and can be used to sell quilts with no infringement on copyright laws.
Read what ckcowel said. She is right. But the easiest way that I can put it is that if I buy a pattern, make the quilt, the end product (the quilt) is MINE and I can do with it what I want with it. The pattern is what is copyrighted, not the quilt. I think that is where people who write patterns get confused, and think that the quilt made from that pattern is still their work. It's not, it's my work. I have read copyright rules from an article written by a lawyer, and this is what I took from it. I'm not saying that I am 100% right, just that this was what I understood.