Hi Clay and everyone Our lace designing is often based on traditional elements - so reworking someone else's 'traditional' design unless they are the real originator of that style of lace - isn't an issue for me. However to say that the adapted design is now 'original' isn't correct either - I would like to think that the maker of the adapted design will say just that. One of the lace groups around here that did a lot of exhibiting at the fall fair set an 'adapted' category. The other categories were 'original lace' and ' from existing pattern' - for the latter, the lacemaker would cite the source and designer (if known).
Once a lace pattern is published, then anyone seeing it can use it for a basis of another pattern. Whether they 'may' use it - that could be debated (I'm not going to ~). For whatever purpose, I don't think it is ethical to call an adapted pattern ones' 'own' (and original) though. By "significant", I mean that elements relate to other elements in the > same way, and that the result immediately brings to mind the orginal design > (assuming you have seen it.) How much do you need to change or modify the > "part" you use in order to call it your own? Do you need to ask the person > who created the original design for permission, or is it sufficient to > attribute your work by saying, "after a pattern by...". Or do you need to > do either of the above? > > -- Bev in Sooke BC (on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
