HELP! how does sharing a pattern work?
#51
The more I read, the more confused I get. You need a law degree. Since I don't show my quilts, and I don't sell them, I guess I am ok. I have designed several quilts . If I post any pictures, feel free to make one too. I just love to quilt. I hope I don't end up in jail.....they don't have the room for all my quilt stuff.
#52
Originally Posted by nursie76
Originally Posted by stitchinwitch
Originally Posted by nursie76
I have seen a lot of patterns on Ebay that were actually pages of a past magazine neatly cut out and placed in a plastic sleeve, and then sold. How does this fit in with the law?
#56
Boy, isn't it wonderful that so many have questions? It shows me that the individuals that reg. this board really want to do the right thing?
I guess the part that confuses me and I think others is the definitions: design/instruction vs. block/technique. I guess I intertwine them and I'm trying to get it. Please have patience!! :D
Say I take a 4P and create to my knowledge a unique block (hard these days). Now I think I understand that I own the design that I've created, but not the block. This is what is confusing me. Aren't they one in the same, if not, how do they differ?
The same with instructions/technique. I write the instructions and own them. But aren't my instructions the technique?
My brain hurts!!! :lol: :lol:
HELP!!!!
I guess the part that confuses me and I think others is the definitions: design/instruction vs. block/technique. I guess I intertwine them and I'm trying to get it. Please have patience!! :D
Say I take a 4P and create to my knowledge a unique block (hard these days). Now I think I understand that I own the design that I've created, but not the block. This is what is confusing me. Aren't they one in the same, if not, how do they differ?
The same with instructions/technique. I write the instructions and own them. But aren't my instructions the technique?
My brain hurts!!! :lol: :lol:
HELP!!!!
#57
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Lebanon, Pa
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Every "Block" has been made at least one time. 50 years ago even 100 hundred years ago women were not worried about copyright laws. The directions are what are copyright protected correct. Most generally those directions are hard for newer generation sewers and quilters to understand. Even I who learned how to sew with women who were in there 80's and 90's when as knee high to a grasshopper made it seem hard.
Can you write the directions in a manner keeping with the tradition and still credit the original author as giving you the original inspiration. There are many designers and pattern makers doing that now. It is recycle reuse but I call it relearning what we already knew in different language. I was blessed to learn my skills from women who were experts and had very nimble fingers.
Can you write the directions in a manner keeping with the tradition and still credit the original author as giving you the original inspiration. There are many designers and pattern makers doing that now. It is recycle reuse but I call it relearning what we already knew in different language. I was blessed to learn my skills from women who were experts and had very nimble fingers.
#58
Originally Posted by stitchinwitch
Originally Posted by Rina
Does that mean, if one of you make a beautiful quilt and place a picture (close up) and I see it here on the board and I "copy" it by making a similar one with my own colors, I am doing wrong?
#59
Originally Posted by stitchinwitch
The pages were COPIED and sold.
the fact that a person hasn't been caught, tried (or sued) and convicted does not make that person any less guilty.
#60
OK. So how about this. What if you wanted to sell purses on a forum like etsy. If you were to add in the price of a pattern for each purse sold, and purchase such pattern for each item sold (I know, kind of far fetched), would that be legal? Is the copyright ensuring the person gets paid, and that's it? I've always been fascinated with the boutique sales and etsy shops, but haven't participated in any because I am very aware of infringement issues.
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