Tamaara
There's been a lot about copyright recently on this and another
discussion group I'm on. If you (legitimately) have a
pattern/instructions for making something, the copyright in the
*pattern* belongs to the originator, but the copyright of the item made
from it belongs to the maker, though as you say a lot of patterns (ie
knitting/dressmaking patterns) are sold for *personal use only*. So if
one of your patterns came u on Ebay, or anywhere else, without your
name on it, yes you could scream blue murder, but not if it's a
finished piece of lace - unless there was hundreds of pieces to the
same design - though it would be nice if the original designer was
credited.
Brenda
Out of curiosity... I know you don't design your own BL pieces, so all
BL lace you've made is likely to have used someone else's pattern....
Do you think I'd be within my rights if I screamed bloody murder,
copyright infringement and rotten ethics, if I saw a piece, made on my
pattern, being sold? I wouldn't do it -- my patterns are *gifts* to
lacemakers and my gifts have no strings attached -- but a lot of
pattern books specifically forbid making lace for sale...
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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