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[quote user="Stephanie"] [quote user="The Quilt Daddy"] I also feel the same regarding fabrics esp[ecially sport teams since I paid to purchase the fabric I feel that I have the right to make whatever I want and when it comes to selling the item I have made I price first to retrieve...
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I am confused by what I am reading here. Please set this straight. When I see a printed FREE pattern in one magazine that is later shown in another 'sister' magazine showing the finished quilts made by that pattern, are those quilters infringing on the original designers quilt?? NO I don't...
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I frequently see photo's of quilts in catalogs, magazines, etc. that I like. Usualy it is a simple matter for me to draft and reproduce the quilt if it uses a block or blocks that have been around most of my life. Even some of the newer blocks based on a grid are easy to copy.Since I do not sell...
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If a block is from the 1800's and is well known, how can a magazine then claim copyright? Does that then mean no one else is able to make a quilt and sell it? Such as nine patch, shoofly, etc. Or even with the Grandmothers Flower Garden. Or a string quilt or crazy patch. If you purchase a pattern...
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In the Society of Decorative Painters it is the pattern that is copyrighted. A designer made that pattern and it can not be copied or reproduced without the designers approval. This is an excerpt from a painting instruction book. "The patterns and drawings in this book are for the personal use of...