In the discussion about copyright Dorte wrote: 'Hi Weronika, when you change the pattern at least 20 procent, you can call it your own design, so it is here in Denmark, if you are re-creating an old pattern it is then yours to sell. anything else is a copy, ...'.
If Danish members of Arachne follow this, they may get into serious troubles. The rest of you may have wondered how the Danish law could differ so much from the law in other countries. I have verified this with the Copyright expert in the Danish Ministry of Culture. There is nothing about a percentage of change. It must be impossible to recognise the original work when you look upon the new work. Otherwise you have to be quite sure that the designer has been dead for 70 years. Ignorance about who was the original designer is no excuse. Dorte had the information on a course from a well-known lace teacher and author. It is extremely unfortunately that Danish lace teachers have a tradition of copying others patterns and putting their own name on them. The most blatant example is Johanne Nyrop Larsen. All but one lace in her book 'Lace-making by Diagram' (Knipling efter tegning) was copied from a book which was also the source of her 'Middle European Peasant Laces'. Consequently laces now believed by many to be Tonder laces are indeed Czech. The original book is (without accents): Smolkova, Marie A. & B�bova, Regina: Krajky a krajkarstv� lidu slovansk�ho v cechach, na morave, ve slezsku a uh. slovensku, Praha 1908. Regina Bibova published a pattern supplement in 1938. Greetings from sunny Copenhagen Grethe - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
