Originally Posted by
CarolynMT
I am not sure if I had an question about copyright that I would contact the people who would benefit from said statements. I can write anything I want on my magazine or pattern, 
doesnt necessarily make it true.
If you are confused about copyright rules, the best source of information on what you can and can not do would be a copyright lawyer, not the writers/publishers.
In my study of the issue, pattern designers only have copyright on the pattern itself not on the products made from the pattern. Which is how it should be. Now with that being said, if you are entering a quilt into a show, it might be courteous to notate that the pattern was designed by XX. The poster who said keepsake returned a quilt that didnt have permission. They are an independent company and as such can set rules however they like. It wasnt really a legal thing per se (in my mind) but a courtesy thing and the way keepsake decided to do business.
These were my thoughts EXACTLY when I read the OP and then the various replies.
But some of us will always be intimidated by someone else's statement of "this is mine".
Unless the design is actually unique, I can't even imagine how a magazine would know that you got it from them and not from sitting at your own computer using EQ. I have no idea if some of the stuff I've got saved on my computer in my EQ designs folder has been published by a magazine somewhere. I figure just everything I've done probably has or probably will be--and I will probably remain ignorant since I don't get any quilting magazines unless they show up at a thrift store when we are in the states.