I follow this debate when it comes up, as best I can, but can I put a
question to all those in the know please?
I have been working on creating a pattern most of the afternoon, I have
taken shapes, fans, spiders, dots trails and things and put them together in
a way that fits (as I am working with the design package. I am not looking
at books, but using different shapes to make what I hope will be a pattern I
like and one I can work. I intend to give it a name (if it comes together
and I like it enough) but without looking at every other torchon pattern
book that is in print how can I be sure I have not repeated someone elses
patterns. (I have quite a few but this is not a repeat of anything in
those).
It is not really likely to be an exact of anyone elses, but without looking
how would I know?
I dont intend to sell it, just to use it for a family piece but under my own
name and under the design name I give it.
Sue T
There have been large and long debates on knitting and lace knitting lists
about this kind of thing, and I have two friends who are patent/copyright
attorneys who have advised me, and one did get into a discussion on a
list. Some of the challenge on one of them was the owners of the list
published patterns, and so wanted to overstate copyright to put fear into
people, which perpetuated misinformation (such as you can't even make a
working copy or photocopy something out of the library, even if
out-of-print).
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