what do you do if
04-11-2012, 06:46 AM
#51
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I think that when someone buys something, it is theirs to do what they want to with it. If the designer doesn't want people making and selling things from thier pattern, then I think they are cutting their own throats because I buy most of my patterns because I saw something that someoneelse made. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
04-11-2012, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
You shouldn't do anything. To start with a designer does not have the right to say what can and can't be done with someone else's work. No matter what they might try and tell you there is nothing in any law that says they can maintain control over someone else's work. Unless that was a stolen quilt actually made by the designer then you shouldn't do anything.
04-11-2012, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Pat M.
I contacted a designer when I noticed her design being used as someone else's design. She wrote me back and thanked me, apparently the person was stealing her designs and selling the product. The newspaper had taken a picture of the item and I saw it.
Why do quilt designers sell their patterns if they don't want anyone to make the quilt?
04-11-2012, 07:35 AM
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I made a quilt and thought I was really smart to come up with the design. Well what should I see later the same quilt . I dont know if they made it like me. I did a short cut. lol I did not sell it but If I wanted to I would. How can someone do a pattern of a quilt that was made in 1800 and all of a sudden it belongs to them and we cant make it and sell it? As my grandmother would say " Hogwash". Now if it's a new design of something I do try and be respectful of that, But I think it is taken a little to far. If I pay for the pattern . Then I should be able to use it for whatever.
04-11-2012, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by GiGi
Why, oh why, is this still being talked about? This subject has been beaten to death; please, let a sleeping dog stay that way. Thank you. GiGi
04-11-2012, 10:47 AM
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I agree totally--I have too many problems of my own to run around worrying about what other people are doing.
Originally Posted by bakermom
MYOB. you don't have the facts and as others have noted, the designers can state whatever they want but they cannot control what you make with the pattern
04-11-2012, 11:12 AM
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really most of this is a bunch of garbage and it all started by an article in McCalls quilting before then I subscribed to every quilt magazine out there since then I get no quilt magazines do not enter or go to quilt shows so I don't worry about it there are so many free patterns on the internet there is no need to even buy one I could not understand why that woman was wanting her patterns in a magazine then coming back that if you made a quilt using one they could not even hang in the local library when people quits buying their patterns then they will change their minds personally if I designed a pattern I would be proud to see someone using it I would know it was liked
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