Originally Posted by
Bree123
Personally, I think it would be a great loss for the arts & quilting communities if designs cannot be protected. Who would bother to spend 3 months of their life coming up with a beautiful new quilt design for $2,000 if they could use that same amount of time to replicate others' work and make $12,000?
I am not sure of your meaning with this last paragraph. Who is able to make $12,000 from making quilts from a pattern? Do not the designers make a profit from the sale of the pattern? Must we forever after genuflect and speak in hush whispers "this is from so - and - so's pattern"?
I believe in crediting the pattern designer, definitely but IMHO demanding reverence for someone who wrote a pattern, does not help the arts and quilting community.
If you don't want an item made, sold, or given from your pattern then don't write patterns. Don't teach classes either because wouldn't that be the same?