SemiSweet

So you guys know where I got my ideas from, as near to the source as I can get them...
My quilt: http://www.quiltingboard.com/attachm...andwiching.jpg
Quilt 1: http://www.quiltsbycindy.com/quiltpho.htm
Quilt 2: http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/2011/10...t-pattern.html
Applique cats from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Quilts-Cra.../dp/080198355X

I think a big problem now-a-days that I worry about sometimes is that you don't know where something originated. The internet is so full of copies of things that you could take an idea from one place but the original owner of that idea is linked after going through 4 or 5 pages. You really notice this on Pinterest!

bigsister63

[QUOTE=Scissor Queen;6148456]This site is way past "uncheerful" and also is past the border of foul and hateful! This is just another trash site!

Also this is stated on the site-
"While www.Tabberone.com believes the information and advice and articles of industry professionals to be reliable, we make no claims or representations about the accuracy, reliability, timeliness, usefulness or completeness of such information or advice from these industry professionals. However, by nature such information from industry professionals is broad in scope. Your situation is unique and our information and advice may not be appropriate for your situation. You should not rely on any information or advice from industry professionals you obtain on this web site. In our defense, we have not had any attorneys contact us to point out any specific errors" ( just because no attorny has contacted them does not make their info correct as they themselfs havre stated)

Leonita

With a lot of embroidery pattern & designs, you have to open it & print it. How are you going to get the directions.? Most are in PDF form. Just finished printing off directions. When the embroidery CD first came out they containd info. Now they don't & you have to print it off.

Maggiem

At the risk of repeating what other threads on this question have said: I am an embroidery pattern designer, and sell digital patterns, which means you need to print them out to use them. How on earth could I ever accuse someone of a copyright infraction for printing out a pattern that must to be printed out in order to be used? It would be the height of silliness.

Patterns are meant to be used. Period. No author has the right, under international copyright law, to prevent you the buyer from doing whatever you want with the product of your labor. In other words, the quilt or the embroidery you make is yours to do whatever you want with. It's always nice manners to credit the designer but even that isn't compulsory.

Copyright protects the author of words and pictures (i.e. the pattern instructions) from having them copied and passed off as someone else's. So what you cannot legally do with my pattern instructions (words, pictures) is copy and sell my pattern with your name on it, or copy-paste it somewhere public and pretend you wrote it.

snipforfun

This subject is getting old! Im glad the original poster identifies the subject so I can just skip over it next time. Rehashed over and over too many times. The best answers can be found by googling and going right to the government site therefore avoiding amateur opinions instead of facts!

OzarksGma

When you bought the pattern, you bought the right to print the pattern to make the product. What you did not buy was the right to share the pattern or copies of the CD with others. Put yourself in the designers place, would you want to lose sales of your patters because someone chose to make copies and give them away. Same thing as putting your hand in the designers pocket and taking the price of the pattern or CD out thus depriving them of profits of the sale.
OzarksGma

nanac

Thank you all for your responses. I do not plan to copy the design nor redistribute it in any way. When I bought it, I thought it was a quilt pattern, and that is what I intended to do - make a quilt. It would not be sold, but for my own use only. Although it turned out to be a cd for embroidery, I think I could figure out how to make a reasonable representation to be able to make my quilt. As for changing one thing (to make it mine), I'm afraid that that happens all too often without me even trying to do it, .
At any rate, I will be contacting the designer for permission, as dunster suggested, because it is her original idea, and I would want to give her due credit. When I eventually get it done, I will try to post a picture.