Brenda has hit the nail on the head. If I make a copy of a page from Brenda's thread book to take with me to a lace day so I can buy thread, that's acceptable. If I went on to sell that copy it would not be so.
Ok, so the fact that Brenda often gives out info from her book completely wipes my example off the face of the earth, she is her own worst enemy. But this isn't the miss chandlers mat issue. This is a book that is easily identifiable, the author is still alive and it's in print. Any argument that these are of historical or particular interest that should result in the price being asked for is mute. The book is in print. I am sorry to say that I think the seller saw an opportunity to group items into multiple lots in order to maximise their return on investment. If we were talking about splitting a group of plates up then it would be acceptable. In an off post conversation, I had remarked to a fellow archneian that there is now a prolific action of Lacemakers worldwide who think nothing of scanning entire books and putting the, on line through Facebook But this also brings to mind a lacemaker last year who was selling off a relative's book collection. It really upset me to see that they wrote trying to charge other Lacemakers £20 for Christine Springetts lace for children of all ages. Christine sells this for about a tenner on her site. That is simply cruel to everyone to charge that amount of money. Mary Nivens Flanders book was beiNg offered for £40. She sells hers on etsy for about £13 One might forgive someone who doesn't know about lacemaking doing this but for a lacemaker to take advantage as the lady did last year is unforgivable. Please don't throw water on me and tell me it's raining. Sometimes, I'm not as green as I'm cabbage looking. Kind Regards Liz Baker > On 22 Jul 2015, at 20:39, Brenda Paternoster <[email protected]> > wrote: > > As I understand it the photocopies were made by the original owner of a book > for his/her personal use that was legal, but to remain legal they should have > remained with the book. - 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/
