Have you seen the statement in the current issue of Mccall Magazine. The statement says that any quilt can be made and exhibited with credit to designer. They say they are the first magazine to do this.

yeah-----------great news.

That came only after, in a previous issue, they stated you could not do any quilt from their mag and show it in a quilt show unless you had written permission from them. Guess they got a lot of letters and amended it to just giving credit so saying they are the first mag to do this may be true but wasn't just given from the goodness of their hearts it would seem.

Thank you for sharing this great news Holice :D:D:D

Thanks for letting us know.

This is good news. But I also agree, it isn't because they had warm fuzzy feelings. LOLQ

I call this shoot themselves in the foot.
Sure, technically, legally, maybe even morally, it's a sue-able issue for magazines, et al, but let's face it, any publishing company or even fabric company is going to go bankrupt chasing after purchasers, who "infringe" upon "their " rights, for using the patterns and prints so available to the quilting industry in every format. There just aren't enough "quilt police," open court dates, or available judges to handle all the instances of this "infringement" in this country.

It seems plain silly to me to openly display and sell ones fabric line, patterns, quilts made, and shop displays to the public and then turn around and tell them they can't use those things for half the reasons they might be purchased. Back to shoot yourself in the foot......

Jan in VA

Amen sista!

McCall's had a very nice follow-up article that explained a lot of questions that some people raised after the initial article the riled up so many. They explained their position very clearly in it. I would recommend that anyone with questions check it out.

Thank for letting us know!

Our maine quilt chapter mailed out a letter telling us any quilts being admitted into our next state quilt show has to have approval from original owner/company of your quilt design. I would think this would start to eliminate a lot of people's quilt entries that do not want to bother with this next step. What do you think?

Refer to post above.....shoot themselves in the foot.:shock:

Jan in VA

I agree.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then making another's quilt pattern to enter into a quilt competition is the ultimate compliment. What do they want from it--Money? Didn't you already buy the pattern?

If you can get the owner/company to respond. I have asked permission from several pattern designers (when I can a valid contact info) for certain things and waited for weeks and never got a reply. And most of these designers with a website and are usually in all the magazines. If they are too busy to reply then I'm too busy to inquire.

yes, I saw that... great idea for them to print this so everyone understands