Originally Posted by
MargeD
The most common theme in articles about copyright infringement laws, allow you to make anything from a pattern, however, you need to acknowledge who made the original pattern; but I'm sure there are more specific informational articles on the QB that would explain it better than I just did.
And that is where the crux of the problem is. Doing the research to find who made the original pattern can be a pain. Someone in 2012 may have put it on the internet, but how do not know if the "original pattern" was actually in a magazine in 1990?