Originally Posted by
quilter2090
You are right Scissor Queen! Wow, Diane really needs to understand copyright law. She says that no one can post a picture of the quilt they made from her pattern,no one can sell a quilt they made from her pattern. Really? When a person buys the pattern, the purchaser can do anything they want with the item made from the pattern. If Diane doesn't want anyone to sell a quilt made from her pattern, she shouldn't sell the pattern then. If someone sued her for her rules that she wants the purchaser to follow, I have a feeling she would learn real fast what rights she does have and what rights she doesn't. An expensive lesson, but one that I think she would not forget.
I would like to ask a question about copyright in general. When Microsoft publishes pre-formatted newsletters, they sometimes take them from other companies, like HP or Dell, etc. They offer those newsletters free and do not designate how they are to be used. Is it true that *pictures* in those newsletters are copyrighted? How could that be if the whole newsletter is not? I have searched and searched for a statement on their site to say any of their free material is copyrighted and cannot find it.