Originally Posted by
bigsister63
Ladies-Do you really think that several of the "star " quilt patterns show on her site are not her own original designs and should not be copyrighted but rather be called considered public domain???? You are nuts!!!!!
Out of the miriad of Lone star patterns she sells (which are most definitely in the public domain as the pattern has been around since the 1800's) I saw maybe 3 that were unique. The eagle one, the turtle one, and the medicine wheel. The rest were just variations on the color placement of your diamonds. I will give her credit that she has some beautiful border designs on her lone stars but given that she is marketing lonestars as her own design, it makes me wonder how many of her designs are original and unique to her?
Really, the only thing, by law, she is allowed to copyright are her instructions in the pattern. Once we make a quilt using her pattern, we have the right to do whatever we want with said end product. I have a lone star on my bed. I used a pattern out of the book quilts, quilts, quilts. How would she be able to prove otherwise if I decided to sell this quilt on Etsy or Ebay?
This has been fought in courts ad-naseum and still people continue to spout incorrect copyright law and pretend like they have supreme ownership of products far exceeding copyright protection under law.