Originally Posted by
Onebyone
You can sell as many of the items you made as you want of the same pattern. You just have to buy as many patterns as the items you sell. Make ten quilt using one pattern, buy ten patterns. Simple and legal.
I agree with Onebyone, on part of this point. If a group is making a quilt, I maintain that you just need one copy for the entire group so long as you are making one top. The group as an entity is making the quilt, therefore one pattern. Just like when a corporation buys software and puts it on a particular computer. Everyone gets to use the computer, one at a time, no infringement.
But this is why we have lawyers, each of us can see so many things clearly on our side of the line (even if it is considered clearly wrong by those on the other side), and then there are the gray issues that we have to work through on a case by case basis.