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Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
(Post 5009543)
They can also go stand in the garage and claim to be a car. Doesn't make it so.
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Originally Posted by dunster
(Post 5009834)
The written instructions and photos or drawings used for those instructions are copyrighted, not the design itself. The written instructions are what make up a pattern.
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Originally Posted by Holice
(Post 5009870)
Last year when all the publicity was going on over the McCalls magazine article on copyright, there was a basic Lone Star quilt featured. Of course it had a copyright on it. I called a knowledgable person ask why a traditional pattern could be copyrighted. that person had also written an article on copyright so felt she has some knowledge.
I was told that the Lone Star was not copyrighted but how it was constructed using the fabrics. That made it unique. As for as the basic pattern - that was not copyrighted. Also the instructions were copyrighted. Doesn't float with me! |
Originally Posted by Tartan
(Post 5010069)
Yep, I hate that and I REALLY hate it when they give it another name and claim it as theirs. Some of us that have been around for a while can easily see through the deception but new quilters are getting short changed.
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I don't know. But My Hubby and I talked He said it could be that "they' have 'Bought' the 'Rights' to the 'Patterns' !!
But if not and the Patterns are in 'free public' not sure of the right words? WE should be able to do as we want!! With out asking for some small time 2@#$$% telling us how to DO. |
It is a little much to me some of the copies rotted stuff. (Misspelling intended) I am sorry but it just seems to be that everyone wants to.get their cut of the money. A waste to me.
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copyrights are going into the bin due to the internet and all the sites there in. so many quilters are posting tutorials on how to make blocks or quilts that designers sell patterns for. it's happening every day. so things will be changing some time but i dont' know how they are going to handle this. I think the world is to big to put manacles on everyone.
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Originally Posted by icon17
(Post 5010224)
I don't know. But My Hubby and I talked He said it could be that "they' have 'Bought' the 'Rights' to the 'Patterns' !!
But if not and the Patterns are in 'free public' not sure of the right words? WE should be able to do as we want!! With out asking for some small time 2@#$$% telling us how to DO. Bought from whom? Mary Jo Smith who first made the pattern in 1792? (fictitious!) Very few, if any, of these patterns can be placed back to a single person. Take "Annie's choice" probably some Annie long 200 years before me! But none of us will ever know WHICH ANNIE! Even if someone shows a pattern as first showing up decades ago, how do WE know that our GG Grandma was indeed the first to use the pattern. |
Originally Posted by sahm4605
(Post 5010264)
It is a little much to me some of the copies rotted stuff. (Misspelling intended) I am sorry but it just seems to be that everyone wants to.get their cut of the money. A waste to me.
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Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
(Post 5009543)
They can also go stand in the garage and claim to be a car. Doesn't make it so.
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