Originally Posted by
HettyB
For those thinking about become designers and selling - copyrighting a quilt design is going to be very difficult – unless it is so radically new and innovative. HettyB
Please understand that when pattern designers say their work is copyright (or copywritten), they are talking about the words of instruction, the layout of the whole work (and in my personal case, the graphics I have drawn) they have written.....not the specific block, of course. Most of those are wide open. But if I have taken the time to drawn the design, modify it, take it apart into sections in a graphic, color it my way, and then broken the quilt down into steps of how to sew it together the way I suggest...well, all of that is MY WORK and is copyrightable. THAT is what we mean by a "pattern" being a copyright. We do not say a BLOCK is a copyright.
Lest it be misunderstood, I restate that BettyGee was right on the money, I agree with her, and I'm glad she wrote the topic.
Jan in VA