On May 2, 2009, at 6:02, Jean Nathan wrote:
If you buy the book and want to put in the time and effort to make anything I've designed and sell it, then good for you - I'm happy I've helped you to make money through your own efforts. But don't sell or give away the designs in my books - they're mine and I'm earning money from them. If you give them away, you're stealing money from me.
I've yet to earn a penny from any of my designs -- the snowflake "book" I put together was a fundraiser for The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, CA -- but my attitude is, generally, the same.
Don't reprint my patterns and give them to friends -- I design them to help promote the oganisation which prints them (Lace Guild in the past, IOLI now). *Definitely do not* reprint and *sell* them. OTOH... If you got my pattern because you're a member of the organisation or because you bought a stack of magazines someone else was geting rid of and you want to make it up and sell it... If you think it's worth your trouble... More power to you. I, myself, could never make lace fast enough to make it worth my time to sell it.
Different designers have different attitudes towards the issue. But, since none of those attitudes can be enforced anyway (except through innate courtesy towards the designer's wishes)... One might as well *appear* to be generous :)
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