I am finding the discussion of other ways to "publish" to be very interesting!
I would love to see viable ways for our very talented authors and designers to make their work available to us. On a related subject, I would like to complain about the lacemaker who takes another person's design, modifies it in some way, and then calls it her own design without adding, "after (name of original designer)". If the design is for her own use, so what, but if she enters it into a competition as her own work...? Several years ago, this happened at the competition at IOLI, and the "winner" had copied a published pattern, without attribution. I recognized the pattern and thought the modification was so slight that it amounted to plagiarism. So yes, while there are mostly good and decent people in lacemaking, there are bad apples in the bunch as well, and we need to protect the intellectual rights of our designers! Clay - 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/
