In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >Does the publication which has not bought >the pattern have a property interest in it that it can protect by limiting use >when it is Bev's desire to share the pattern as widely as possible?
As I understand it - in terms of British copyright, anyway, in this sort of case the author/designer holds copyright to the article/pattern but the magazine holds copyright on the layout. Like Bev, I pass on some of my patterns for publication in various magazines (these days either Lace or The Canadian Lacemaker Gazette - my tatting isn't really up to publication so The Ring of Tatters don't have to suffer!), believing in sharing, and am flattered when I hear of someone who likes my designs enough to want to make them. As I own the copyright to my patterns, if one of my patterns has been published in, say, Lace, and one of my students who is not a member of the Guild wishes to make it, then I am at liberty to provide her with a copy of *my* pattern - not a photocopy of the pattern published in the magazine. Many publications, including the local newspaper I have just been temping at, will not knowingly publish something they know to have been submitted to another publication - The Lace Guild's stance on this is that articles submitted must not have been submitted to any other similar publication in the last ten years - this is so that we actually have different patterns and articles in the several publications we subscribe to - especially now that subscribing to overseas publications is relatively easy! If you allow someone else to use a pattern from the magazine you subscribe to, you are robbing the magazine/organisation of a potential subscriber/member. If everyone did this, then the organisations would cease to be viable - and there would be no magazines with their articles and patterns for any of us. On the other hand, a good pattern could be the carrot that gets your friend to join - then you have another friend to go to convention with....? I have no objection to my patterns being shared - but the courtesy of being asked is a small price to pay, maybe. Likewise I have no objections to the lace being made for sale - for genuine charitable causes - but for someone to do this without asking permission would be in breach of copyright. For those who design patterns for a livelihood, what little they may make of it, I respect their rights to do so, and do not allow my students to use patterns from sources they do not own a copy of (except library books - not that our local public library has any lace books now - which are a grey area). Dressmakers, incidentally, can only use a commercial pattern if it has been purchased by the client - multiple use for multiple clients is not allowed (I used to work for a dressmaker, keeping her "books".) If you read the small print on some of the patterns, you will see this clearly stated. -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
