Originally Posted by
justflyingin
I was under the impression that most selling patterns on ebay are selling the original pattern, ripped out of magainzes.
I can't imagine why anyone thinks that is a copyright violation if they are selling originals.
I have personally purchased patterns (crochet in this case, not quilting) from ebay, thinking that they were pages from magazines, as that's what was depicted in the photos, only to have them arrive and actually be bad photocopies of said pages. This happened with at least three sellers that I can recall (quite a few years ago). I was disgusted enough to stop buying patterns from ebay entirely. I questioned a couple of the sellers about it and got extremely rude replies.