If the copy shows significant origins in the original work it can be considered to either be an infringement (as in "but I didn't uses pricking, I just copied it from the photograph") or an heir, within copyright as in when we might take a pricking and change the ground and other elements but fundamentally it is the same pricking.
Unfortunately, many people believe that there is a 10% rule on copyright (there isn't and it is in fact an urban myth). This is where people tell you that if you change 10% it's now your design. Complete rubbish and if you went to court and said "I was told by people that ...." You'd loose. A copy is a copy, is a copy. Another myth is that you can copy 10% of a book and be in copyright. Copyright actual is 'fair usage' so for a book of prickings it would be fair to copy all the prickings and maybe blow up working diagrams. However, would it be fair to copy 10% of an art book and put the pictures in frames rather than by prints where money goes to the artist? But it would be acceptable under copyright (but not under care of books) to take the illustrations out of a book and frame them. There are so many prickings out there that I have to do that worrying over Ms Channer's mat and its availability is really a lost cause ... I happen to have an original copy of Christine Springett's bucks point fan which is my Ms Channer's mat but with so many books being copied and available to download on the web that are in copyright it is still,as I have said before, an important moral as well legal debate because it applies to all those gentle spiders who are designing lace now. Kind Regards Liz Baker > On 7 Jan 2014, at 17:55, [email protected] wrote: > > However, there appear to be some > photo copies of patterns/prickings which are in the hands of Diana Trevor > that do not have Miss Channer's name or mark on them and don't appear ever > to have been published by her. In fact, they are not even exactly the same > as the photo in the book. One may be part of a collection of patterns given > by Pat Payne to the Alby museum, and one comes from the archive of Vi > Bullard. - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
