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Old 04-04-2014, 11:45 AM
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GrannieAnnie
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Originally Posted by cynicalbeauty
So I have a question. If you make a quilt using a pattern in a magazine, are you allowed to sell it? I ask because I thought that you could, being that you bought the pattern, but my MIL says you can't. I recently saw something in a magazine that if you make a quilt using a pattern in the magazine it can be placed in a show only if the prize is under $1000 and you give credit to the designer. I have never sold a quilt made from a magazine pattern, but I was just curious whether or not there was a law against it.
Many patterns in magazines are variations of age old blocks. The person in the article does not own the rights to those patterns.
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