> >>>But can putting a "boasting" picture, with proper credits to book and
> designer, on a non-commercial "boasting" website, really be described as
> *publishing* except in the very widest sense of the word, ie make generally
> known. Surely it's the modern equivalent of having it hanging on your wall
> where all your friends will see it, or in a key ring fob, or taking your
> finished work to a lace day.<<<
>
> Not really. Most people don't have millions of people worldwide coming to
> their living room to see their work. And someone who sees my piece (at a
> lace day or on a key ring or on my wall) is not in a position to make copies
> at the click of a mouse button, in order to make it themselves. They would
> have to get it from me, and only with my permission.
Actually, is it legal for you to lend them the actual lace piece to reproduce?
Also, what about taking pictures and putting them in a physical photo album and
showing them to people?
If the copyright problem is not people seeing the image, but people copying it
and using it to reproduce the design, then I think it's the copying people who
are breaking the copyright law, not the person who made the picture. In fact, I
don't think it's even OK to download pictures from people's websites without
their permission... In which case the only way putting a picture on a website
would harm the designer would be by making it easier to make an illegal copy,
which I don't think is by itself an illegal activity, especially if you give a
source of the pattern so that people know it's published and copyrighted.
Weronika
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Weronika Patena
Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika
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