Thanks, I would like to quote a couple things they say but will leave it be for everone to go read themselves.

Amen to that!

Thank you for posting that link!

I like this site a lot. It really explains it well. I will end up buried underneath a pile of quilts if I don't sell any of them. LOL

Thank you for this link I think we can all rest assured that we can make articles from a pattern and sell at a craft show my husband makes birdhouses and I am into quilts and other small articles now lets all get to work and have some fun

Thank you SandraP for asking the court case question as it set me in motion searching and I stumbled upon the above mentioned link.

Lol, too cute Patrice. :D

It is a good topic and this was on Yahoo today: https://www.yahoo.com/makers/craft-c...517104510.html, discussing this issue.

I've been told, by a published quilt designer, that once the pattern is published and SOLD, there is nothing owed to the designer anymore, UNLESS the purchaser of the the pattern tries to re-sell the pattern, or distributes it to others who have not paid for it.

A fact based, no vested interest reference that I don't believe has been posted before.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/

And this is the (humongous) resource listing for a course that teaches copyright law. The course covers copyright as it applies to digital items, but some of the resources listed are applicable to us here as well.
http://www.teachingcopyright.org/resources