Respect The Work of Others
#51
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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A few designers want you to buy the pattern to see how it's made, not to actually make it. LOL
#52
I really am sure about the 'or make it for your personal use' part because I showed it to the shop owner and there were a couple of customers nearby who heard the exchange and came over to look at the pattern as well. None of us could believe what we were reading.
#54
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Jozefow, Poland
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Several years ago I found a quilt pattern I really loved. There was a copyright printed on the back that stated the purchaser could not duplicate, copy or sell the pattern and that the finished product could not be sold or reproduced for sale to others or used for your own personal use. Why would I spend $12.00 for a pattern that I could not make for myself?????
-----and that was crazy, by the way, to write that you can't even use for your own personal use. They must have made a typo, meaning to say that it was for your own personal use.
#55
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As many have stated--quilt blocks are really just squares and triangles and rectangles, for the most part. And circles. They can't claim that that is original--it's probably not.
Oftentimes, just as soon as you think something is new, you look in an old quilting magazine or book and see something just like what you thought was new!
#56
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I agree with you. Even if you use an original pattern and make your own additions/changes the credit to pattern designer should be given. I am guilty of having posted a picture of a quilt that started out as a basic churn dash and morphed into a completely different quilt; however, credit should have been given to the original pattern I chose. While I cannot undo this I will certainly remember to give credit in the future.
Since no one can copyright the basic shape of churn dash, why even think about it? You didn't violate anything--you just designed a new-to-you quilt.
#57
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Originally Posted by [email protected]
But if it's in a magazine and you bought the magazine, isn't that pattern yours to use ? And why couldn't you share it because you paid for it in the magazine? I have shared my magazines with others before, I can't testify if they traced out the patterns and used them or not, don't really care, because I paid for that magazine. Maybe patterns shouldn't be placed in magazines if they don't want them used or shared?????? HHHMMMM
#58
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I'm playing the devil's advocate here, but if you started with a churn dash and proceeded to change it, why do you need to tell everyone--anyone who has been quilting for a while knows that it is based on churn dash.
Since no one can copyright the basic shape of churn dash, why even think about it? You didn't violate anything--you just designed a new-to-you quilt.
Since no one can copyright the basic shape of churn dash, why even think about it? You didn't violate anything--you just designed a new-to-you quilt.
#59
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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Based on this post, I guess I should not have gifted any of those quilt patterns I have sent to secret pals and secret santas. I wonder how many of them sent money to the pattern maker? How about the patterns I have used in the past, and gifted the quilts, or sold the quilts? Good thing I have given up using patterns as of today, so no one copy anything I post from now on, okay? I am so glad I can make my own patterns, so I will no longer be breaking any laws. Anyone want a huge pile of patterns, or am I required to burn them?
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