Help With Design Rights: My Quilt or Yours?
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Sorry you cannot prevent anyone from selling what they make from your pattern. You only have rights to the pattern as you precisely describe it. Designers might try to put in clauses saying you can 'only make up to 10' quilts with their pattern but it has no real legal validity. As a designer you have rights to the description and words you use to put the pattern together, but if Joe Blogs wants to alter your pattern slightly and describe a different method for putting it together you cannot do anything about it either. Certain things are prevented from being fully copyrighted, things that are for ubiquitous common and utilitarian use being one...think of a cup. If I design a cup with a slightly diffferent handle I cannot really copyright it. This is how it is possible for many faux clothes designers to get away with doing imitation designer goods. Imagine everyone racing to get copyright each time they adjust a hem on a skirt or bows on a shirt! You would be hard pressed to prove that your pattern was completely unique. So many quilt blocks out there someone has done similar before. Its geometry afterall
also here is a bit that always brother'ed me the Maggie Malone pattern Storm at Sea, she came up with it in the 30's I believe. But what Mary seams to be saying with the quilting bible we can't use these patterns and sale them. How in the world can any block in that book, which are just the blocks from the past few 100 years, how can they stand there and tell us we can't make and sale a quilt from it.
Start watching the video again from 3:56. She explains it clearly about selling a quilt that the pattern belonged to someone else.
That was great info. Thank you!
I remember that block you said you lost for a long time... it was shown on LOVE of Quilting.. not sure of the episode ... but you did a beautiful quilt. I found it in a book and put the pattern in my SOMEDAY I want to do that pattern.
This was a great vid, and does a great service to all who quilt. I will purchase the book you mom recommended. Thank you again for this presentation.
This info is awesome!! When I first started making quilts people said I should sell them!! All I wanna do is give them away.I'm satisfied with seeing the smile on others face's.....When it did cross my mind to sell I felt guilty because I knew I was using patterns someone else created.Yes I use my own colors and lay outs!!...To this day I don't sell them,I give them away!!...I watched your other video on selling quilt's!! Thank you for these videos,They are really helpful and have answered allot of Q's I'v had!! :)
Appreciate your information. Been watching quilt videos for ohhhhh six, nine months? Still yet to make one. i have a long way to go. Thanks
Good tutorial Help With Design Rights: My Quilt or Your? Thank you Mary Fons for sharing!
A while back there was a controversy when a pattern designer used FABRIC ( by Kate Spain) for projects in a book. Ms Spain told them to cease publication as they did not have permission to use the fabric in their projects for publication. Some fabrics are printed with RESTRICTIONS of use on them..... I am not sure what was the final results of the dust up ... law suites were threatened....... IN MY OPINION .... I do not think any manufacturer or designer can restrict the useage of fabric purchased for any use...
ONCE THEY SELL THE FABRIC IT IS THE BUYERS RIGHT TO DO WHAT THEY WANT WITH IT... I always look for those fabrics and make sure not to BUY THEM.
+Nonnie Palmer They may be printed with restrictions of use, but it isn't binding so-sew-easy.com/sewing-pattern-copyright-law/
I would probably use them to make PASTIES for a stripper I know
JENNY BEYERS BOOK is also has a great book and tells you how to design blocks .. I also liked BLOCK BASE from ELECTRIC QUILT COMPANY as the software prints out the information for you and is based on Brackman's books. There are over 4000 royalty free blocks to choose from not including royalty free applique blocks. So we have a lot of chances to make our own quilt. ... Nonnie .....
Thank you, Mary.
Thank you so much
Mary, What about copyright for the pattern instructions? Suppose I want to teach how to make the quilt at a quilters' retreat?
No, quilting patterns should not be copyrighted. Copyright law is nasty and complicated. Don’t go there.
It’s like art. It is art. Can’t copyright it. If I copy a painting, even in another medium, I not that it is “after” the artwork.
Geometry can’t be copyrighted.
Giving credit is the right thing to do, but I think it's going too far to say that a person should contact designers to find out if their use of a pattern is appropriate. Quilting patterns are a lot like baking recipes: the designers really only have copyright protection over the exact wording of the pattern that has been printed and shared online or sold. If someone else can figure out how to bake those muffins or make that quilt without the instructions, they are within their rights to do so and they should make whatever changes they want. Quilting is a creative outlet and creativity involves building upon work you've seen. Beginning quilters shouldn't be scared to make something because they don't know who to credit for the design.
pwrpam almost every single thing I ever sew or craft is made without a pattern. so to worry about all of this seems very unnecessary to me. I literally look at the picture and make it. I hardly ever use a real established pattern.
This topic is old but here goes I purchased a pattern online for a knitted hat. When I paid and downloaded
the pattern the terms and conditions were ridiculous. EG: you will have bad karma if you knit this hat and sell it.
Only ONE hat may be made from pattern. I should have sued the "So called designer" there was no actual
written instructions apart from casting on an then lines of numbers in different colours.
Good topic. Thanks!
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this is why i complete, fully, my own quilt. I don't ever, start to finish, hire or pay another to do part of it. I don't think you should. you should take pride in the quilt and do it all yourself.
Common sense will prevail. If I buy YOUR quilt that YOU have made and then sell it on as MY creation then yes I have 'plagerised' YOUR design and YOUR quilt but if I myself make another quilt and copy your pattern whether it be the same fabric or not then by default the quilt I make CANNOT possibly be yours and will be different in a myriad of ways. Ever stitch is different and every cut is different and every size is different so copy right is null and void except only in the first instance that I have quoted. Have a nice day!
Some of this is ridiculous, especially when your dealing with art. Rectangles; Triangles, half square triangles. Some of copy write law is ridiculous. I feel like even kindergartener's need to know copy wright laws! It's about the first one that got there. Some of this is I wonder would of been or has been invented already by somebody somewhere.
Well obviously, humans have mirror neurons and so we learn by observing and copying, how else do you know to return a handshake? You learnt by copying
True!
Is the qualifier the intent to make money with an already published design? Make 30 and give them to relatives, but don't put them on ebay to make a profit? Don't publish it in a book of your own publishing and sell that to make money on it that way? If you're going to publish GET PERMISSION from the originator.
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