Originally Posted by
Stitchnripper
does it cloud the issue too much if I ask why it is okay to sell a pattern on eBay without giving all or a portion of the money to the original designer? Please understand I am not trying to look for trouble or make trouble for anyone. This copyright situation is very confusing to me. I've read I think all or most posts on the subject here on the Board. There are a few that agree and some have different interpretations. Do the original people in this example, Nancy J. Smith and Lynda S. Milligan, have the right to question this sale? Or is just that no one is stealing their intellectual property? They still get credit on the pattern for it's design, just no money from the sale of it? Apparently this is okay since eBay does sell patterns. Someone please enlighten me or correct me? thanks.
I look at is as a car. You don't pay GM or Ford if you sell your car to someone else yet you can't go and reproduce the car if you could. Same thing with magazines. Copyrights in my opinion is that you can't make copies and sell them as your own designs. Interesting discussion.