Hi Tom, and Devon, and other lacemakers! To take this question in a slightly different direction, how much would the original design have to be changed in order to call it an original design? If a creative lacemaker used the mat as "inspiration" and made a design that looked a great deal like the mat - but was not an exact duplication - would that be a violation of copyright?
Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [lace] Miss Channer/enforcement issues > So, Tom, if someone were, hypothetically speaking, not that I am advocating > it, to very quietly and in a non-public place, photocopy the pattern and give > it to her friend, how would the damages be reckoned? Ruth Bean repeatedly goes > on record as saying that it is not worth reprinting. However, they did respond > with a reminder that they own the copyright at one point when someone offered > on-line to photocopy it for another person. > I don't think anyone is actually proposing to run off as many as a hundred > copies, and if they did, they would lose their shirts on the enterprise, much as > Ruth Bean, apparently would if they did it. It is the person who reproduces > the pattern that suffers economic loss in this scenario, so how do you > calculate damages? It would be an interesting question for a law school exam. > It seems to me that every year Ruth Bean is deluged with e-mails from people > pleading to have them reprint this pattern. This kind of annoyance is probably > unknown for "The Idiot's Guide to Safe Cracking", for instance, but the > lacemakers are a fanatically law abiding group. > Devon > who never advocates law-breaking. > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
