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#22
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I was under the impression that most selling patterns on ebay are selling the original pattern, ripped out of magainzes.
I can't imagine why anyone thinks that is a copyright violation if they are selling originals.
I can't imagine why anyone thinks that is a copyright violation if they are selling originals.
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Lest it be misunderstood, I restate that BettyGee was right on the money, I agree with her, and I'm glad she wrote the topic.
Jan in VA
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Interesting thread! When I comment on lovely quilts at our guild show and tell, especially if I inquire about the name/designer of the pattern, many folks will say something like, "Oh, don't buy it, I'll copy mine." Which is often a copy already, for crying in the beer. It amazes and disappoints me.
An annual event - Bonnie Hunter's huge mystery - starts soon. It'll be posted on her blog, in weekly segments, for 6 to 8 weeks. Then she'll say - and send/post reminders - that it's going to remain up until (whatever date, usually in late June or July). At that point, it is taken down and will be put in a future book. I can't tell you how many times people have sent me PM's saying, "I know it's not posted any more, so can you just send me a copy so I don't have to buy the book next year?" Um... No. I usually just don't answer b/c I don't know how to tactfully say it's illegal!
I often say that I'm good at following instructions, but am not creative enough to come up with a pattern. If I want people to be successful in the quilting design business so that I can follow those patterns, I'd better be willing to pay them to do it.
And once I'm done with a pattern, it's unlikely that I'll make it again. First, I'm usually really glad to be finished doing the same thing over and over. Second, there are too many things that I want to make. I'll never get to them all even making just one, so sure can't make more than one. Once I'm done with them, I usually give them away at guild meetings. The original pattern, with any notes I made and all, not a copy!
An annual event - Bonnie Hunter's huge mystery - starts soon. It'll be posted on her blog, in weekly segments, for 6 to 8 weeks. Then she'll say - and send/post reminders - that it's going to remain up until (whatever date, usually in late June or July). At that point, it is taken down and will be put in a future book. I can't tell you how many times people have sent me PM's saying, "I know it's not posted any more, so can you just send me a copy so I don't have to buy the book next year?" Um... No. I usually just don't answer b/c I don't know how to tactfully say it's illegal!
I often say that I'm good at following instructions, but am not creative enough to come up with a pattern. If I want people to be successful in the quilting design business so that I can follow those patterns, I'd better be willing to pay them to do it.
And once I'm done with a pattern, it's unlikely that I'll make it again. First, I'm usually really glad to be finished doing the same thing over and over. Second, there are too many things that I want to make. I'll never get to them all even making just one, so sure can't make more than one. Once I'm done with them, I usually give them away at guild meetings. The original pattern, with any notes I made and all, not a copy!
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It's legal to sell original pages from a magazine. What I don't understand is why the big bookstores do not stop people from taking pictures with their cell phone of recipes, patterns, etc from a book off their shelf. I see this happening all the time. I saw one woman in Target taking pictures of patterns in a craft magazines. I was brave enough to say I think that is not allowed. She just shrugged, laughed and said so what and she had two children with her. When I turned to leave I heard one of the kids say Mom that woman was being mean to you.
#28
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One thing I found most interesting in the link from HettyB's post was the issue of public domain. If I understood the blogger correctly, any quilt pattern designed prior to 1978 is considered public domain and not subject to copyright.
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Thanks I did ask the question. It's such a blurred area. If I personally design a quilt and then did a workshop doing the pattern do I have any copyright right, or no rights at all to the people at workshop sharing the pattern?
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