there is a saying-your fist ends where my nose begins- i think that can apply to copyright, too. A designer has the right to have their work protected-not copied and passed off as someone else's. but that right ends when it comes to controlling what I make/sell using their pattern. They have no control over that. and no, I don't have to ask their permission.

Here's a question? I get it that numerous vendors claim to hold copyrights. How do I KNOW they do have a copyright? Just because they say so, doesn't mean they do!

Many, many of the patterns I see in books and magazines are long time favorites. Usually just a different take on colors and fabrics.

I've written a few articles in my life and I guarantee you NONE OF THEM were copyrighted.

Annie's Choice, Balkan Puzzle, Dutchman's Puzzle are mine.

Oh, never mind. I'm NOT that old.

Actually they are. Anything you write is technically copyrighted. You don't have to register it to own the copyright, although if you ever have to go to court over infringement, you stand a better chance of proving ownership if you did register it.

I just looked at her website, and I only see a FEW quilts of the whole that could be considered her "original" designs ... the eagle, the turtle and one or 2 others ... can't even remember what they are now
The rest ?? ... are the TRADITIONAL, TIME-honored Lone Star, Broken Star or Blazing Star patterns ... nothing unique or added to any of them. Color placement is the only change in these quilts, and people have been making these star quilts for decades

This is about as silly a claim as some of the "modern quilt" designers I see who claim nine-patches, churn dashes and strip designs as their own, exclusive "designs" ...
Sorry, but the Amish and others did ALL those, and more - 100+ years ago ... ! LOL

Originally Posted by bigsister63
I do not undestand . Are you all NOT going to buy/use a pattern with the basic copoyright statement printed on the pattern or book.This statement is on about 99.9% of the quilting books and patterns. Does that mean that you are designing your own patterns! Or are you just saying that you will not buy because Dianne stood up for her rights on copyright infringement.

I just had to check my books. They all have an almost identicle statement.
All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or information storage and retrieval systems- without written permission of the publisher.

This is almost word for word in every book. Nowhere in that do I read that the designer is making any claims on what I can do with my quilt. Your claim that 99.9% of patterns try to make theese claims is wrong.

It seems to me that if Diane offers the pattern for sale, that is permission to reproduce it (otherwise, why sell the pattern?). And why would anyone buy a pattern if they didn't plan on reproducing the work (someday-lol)? It seems to me too that Diane is a little too full of herself and as someone has already said, the pattern is not an original that she thought up on her own, as it is a reproduction of ones made many many many sunrises and sunsets ago. I say GO FORTH AND QUILT, and enjoy doing it.

posted by feather-n-Fur "This is almost word for word in every book. Nowhere in that do I read that the designer is making any claims on what I can do with my quilt. Your claim that 99.9% of patterns try to make theese claims is wrong."

What I mean is the 99.9% of books and quilt pattern have this copyright statement printed on them. You have proved my point. Can all these books and pattens be printiing incorrect and incporrect info?