Very interested in this thread.
Now here is a thought - I have a pattern which I bought last year for somefree lace. Now the 'pricking' is not a pricking in the true sense of the word - it is simply a the outline drawing of the pin lines with no holes marked. (Yes, very free lace indeed). When I make this lace I will obviously be completing my own interpretation of the lace because how and where I put the pins are my ideas and also which braids I use within the lace are my own ideas.
So, my question here is where is the copyright?
If I'm right then I own copyright on my finished piece of lace because I have no choice but to use my interpretation on it but I have no copyright on the shape (ie outline) of the free lace because that came from the outline that is the pattern.
There are two different things to take in account about designing patterns depending on laces: Those who refer to "contour" and those who refer to "contents".
Witch Stitch Lace is just a shape line with no holes pricked on the pattern, and of course it is the original design. The way that the lines are drawn is what makes sense to the overall.
It is more important the lines that the "contents" in this case. You can work the braids with different stitches, but I always shall consider object of the copyright the shape of the pattern, does not matter which are the adaptations you make, working stitches different than the original ones.
This rule I think could be also applied on Milanese Lace, and other tape laces.
This is not the case whereas of Torchon Lace, where the shape or outline of the pattern is not so important as the "contents". The combination of different stitches is what makes up the design, and what is object of copyright.
Someone (I do not remember who now, excuse me) has talk about percentages in similarity. This would be the case.
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