Re: [lace-chat] Copyright questions

2007-04-18 Thread Joy Beeson

On 4/17/07 3:46 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:


The V & A requires permission to reproduce any postcards
you buy from them, so unless they already have permission
from a copyright owner, I presume they own the copyright
on any paintings they have bought or had donated to them.


You can own copyright on a postcard without owning copyright
on the painting it was made from.  Including open-domain
material does not make a work uncopyrightable.  Nor does
including open-domain work in a copyrighted work give you
any claim over the open-domain work -- though you *are*
entitled to insist that people find an open-domain copy and
do their own cleaning up, arranging, etc.

In addition, anyone can make agreeing not to copy a thing a
condition of sale.  Such agreements usually require a
signature, but one often sees "by [opening this
package/clicking on this link . . . ] you agree to . . . . "

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[lace-chat] Copyright

2007-04-17 Thread Brenda Paternoster

Hello everyone

I've just found this with Google:
http://painting.about.com/cs/artistscopyright/f/copyrightfaq15.htm
not sure if it's British or American, but it does state that copyright 
remains with the artist when a picture is sold, unless agreed 
otherwise.


This website
http://www.arsny.com/other.html#owners
makes it clear that in USA copyright is not automatically transferred 
with the physical painting


From all this it does look as though purchase of an original painting 
does not automatically transfer the copyright with it, so if the artist 
has retained a good photographic record of his/her work then he/she is 
still free to sell prints whilst the purchaser of the painting is not.


Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
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Re: [lace-chat] Copyright questions

2007-04-17 Thread Brenda Paternoster

Hello Jean

The V & A requires permission to reproduce any postcards you buy from 
them, so unless they already have permission from a copyright owner, I 
presume they own the copyright on any paintings they have bought or 
had donated to them.


That's because they own the photograph rather than the painting.  In 
much the same way that a printer can own the copyright to the 
typesetting of, say a work by Shakespeare, even though the work itself 
is out of copyright.  You could legally retype the words yourself but 
not photocopy them from his typesetting.



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[lace-chat] Copyright questions

2007-04-17 Thread Jean Nathan
In an edtion of the 'Antiques Roadshow", the owner of a small Kate Greenaway 
painting said she had had Christmas cards made from it. The expert wasn't 
worried by this, and they usually put people right if they are doing 
something illegal - the person was an expert on paintings. From this I 
assume that in the UK, if you own the painting, you also own the copyright. 
Admittedly Kate Greenaway died in 1901, so even if the same rules apply that 
apply to writing, i.e. copyright belongs to the author until 70 years after 
their death, the painting would be out of copyright.


The V & A requires permission to reproduce any postcards you buy from them, 
so unless they already have permission from a copyright owner, I presume 
they own the copyright on any paintings they have bought or had donated to 
them.


Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 


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[lace-chat] copyright

2004-08-30 Thread Tatdlace
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:25:25 EDT
Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Now here is a thought, I've been blogging and putting pictures of the lace
> that I'm making on my blog - am I infrindging copyright - yes I possibly
am -

This is a discussion that frequently comes up on the
tatting list as one designer did apparently sue someone for posting a
picture of the lace she had made from the designer's
pattern. She didn't win. Displaying a picture of lace
you made from a pattern doesn't infringe upon the copyright
any more than posting a picture of yourself wearing a dress
made from a pattern. What the designer has the right to is the written
material. The "design", the intellectual property,
is a much grayer area especially when you consider the
diverse countries involved in anythiong posted on the
internet.
I design tatting patterns for sale, and the money from
the patterns keeps me in thread to make more patterns. I
would be annoyed if someone called any of my patterns
their's, but I'm thrilled if I see someone else has
done one of my designs. I've had people take my design
and do something new to it and send me pictures to show
it off and again I'm thrilled. If someone took a design
and made a minor changed and called it their own, I'm not
sure how I'd feel.
Sharon Briggs
In Brampton, Ontario, Canada where it looks like the summer
we didn't have, is already gone :(

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Re: [lace-chat] Copyright - my two penn'th

2004-08-28 Thread Thelacebee
In a message dated 28/08/2004 18:52:09 GMT Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> By the way, did you know that in the UK you 
> >aren't supposed to 'charge' someone petrol money to take them somewhere - 
> that 
> >makes you a taxi and gives issue with your insurance but they can offer to 
> fill up 
> >your petrol tank and pay for it - see, we have laws that go round in 
> circles 
> >on other areas too!)
> This was changed by British insurance companies some time back.  They got
> together and changed the relevant clauses in all policies at the same time.
> I think that it may have been around the time of the first oil crisis in the
> 70's, and the government pressured the insurance companies into doing it.
> 

Actually, you still have to have special clauses in your insurance to 
regularily carry other people in your car either for work or pleasure - had to go 
through this last year 

Regards

Liz in London

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Re: [lace-chat] Copyright - my two penn'th

2004-08-28 Thread Thelacebee
Here's another thing on Copyright - I've been doing what we call Lace Porn 
this afternoon - looking at all the lovely sites and all the things I would like 
to own at some time.

Then I thought I'd have a flick through ebay and found quite a few pieces of 
lace on there for sale (and I only looked at the UK items) - these people 
think that they are just getting a bit of pin money by selling 'their' lace - 
after all they made it - but they are infringing the copyright of the designers 
because they are selling up someone else's design.

I had a look and can say that these people didn't design the lace because 
looking at their locations they aren't the people who sell the patterns as I have 
two of those shown and they come from differnt places.

Regards

Liz in London

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Re: [lace-chat] Copyright - my two penn'th

2004-08-28 Thread Steph Peters
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:25:25 EDT, Liz wrote:
>It isn't something that we can police because let's face it, how do you 
>remember who you've sold patterns to when you see them at a lace day - perhaps it 
>was bought by a friend as a present - I've had that happen when I've given 
>someone a lift to a lace fair.  (By the way, did you know that in the UK you 
>aren't supposed to 'charge' someone petrol money to take them somewhere - that 
>makes you a taxi and gives issue with your insurance but they can offer to fill up 
>your petrol tank and pay for it - see, we have laws that go round in circles 
>on other areas too!)
This was changed by British insurance companies some time back.  They got
together and changed the relevant clauses in all policies at the same time.
I think that it may have been around the time of the first oil crisis in the
70's, and the government pressured the insurance companies into doing it.

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Re: [lace-chat] Copyright - my two penn'th

2004-08-27 Thread Thelacebee
In a message dated 27/08/2004 23:32:56 GMT Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> I also know that a lot of people will "share" patterns - 
> 'we'll buy one each and make copies'.  Whilst that's illegal it's 
> hardly worth making a fuss about.  Only if I saw someone selling my 
> patterns without permission would I get upset.  If I go to a lace day 
> and see one of my designs on a pillow, or finished and on display I get 
> a kick of pride knowing that I designed it, and I take it as a 
> compliment that someone else liked the pattern enough to make it up.
> 
> Brenda
> http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
> 

Brenda and the Spiders (ah the rock band is back),

I think you have hit the nail on the head here.  We all know that copyrights 
mean we can't give away your 'intellectual property' - the pattern but we also 
know that it does go on.  

It isn't something that we can police because let's face it, how do you 
remember who you've sold patterns to when you see them at a lace day - perhaps it 
was bought by a friend as a present - I've had that happen when I've given 
someone a lift to a lace fair.  (By the way, did you know that in the UK you 
aren't supposed to 'charge' someone petrol money to take them somewhere - that 
makes you a taxi and gives issue with your insurance but they can offer to fill up 
your petrol tank and pay for it - see, we have laws that go round in circles 
on other areas too!)

The one thing here that Brenda has said that makes me feel great is that she 
gets a kick out of seeing her pattern on someone else's pillow being made - or 
on display.

Whilst I know that massive financial rewards would be better, that kick must 
we worth it's weight in gold - I just get a kick from seeing a hankie I made 
my mum, on her dressing table every time I go round and I didn't even design 
it!

The Aussie asked why I don't design anymore and I said that simply I don't 
have the time - there are so many things I want to make that to design, at this 
time, stops me.  But if there weren't people like Brenda out there then I 
would have nothing to make but historical patterns and whilst I love the patterns 
out of the luton books etc if I wanted to make there I would have to true them 
up if someone else had not taken the time to do so for me.

I taught this woman to make lace and she moaned when she had to spangle her 
bobbins, and she moaned when she had to wind her bobbins, and she moaned when 
she had to finish off the lace, and she moaned when she had to mount her lace 
... in the end, I asked her why she was making lace and she said; 'so people 
can see I'm clever and have a hobby'.

Historically, lace makers did all these things because they are part of the 
craft that we follow and if you don't do them then you don't really make lace 
(ok, so we all occassionally buy pre spangled bobbins at show and I've got a 
bobbin winder) but designing lace was not historically part of the lace makers 
repertoire - if I was a commercial lacemaker then it is something that I would 
have been given to make from - so for me, people like Brenda are fulfilling a 
role that has been there as long as lacemaking and if I remove her ability to 
receive recognition of her time and effort then I am stealing from her - both 
monetarily and morally - so I pay for my pattern and I should show my 
appreciation of her pattern when I've made it by letting her know I loved it (or even 
loathed it but got there if it's a difficult one) and asking her permission to 
put it on my web site.  

Now here is a thought, I've been blogging and putting pictures of the lace 
that I'm making on my blog - am I infrindging copyright - yes I possibly am - 
but I'm careful to only show the part of the pattern I'm working on and to say 
where it came from.  When I did talk about the equipment I was using it caused 
the great talk about the green horse shoe that I was using from Kleinhout and 
infact that was when Brenda, I believe, said that they sell them in the UK and 
raised awareness of it.

To some extent - with lace web sites and blogging we are globally doing what 
lacemakers have done for years - we are bragging about our favourite lace toys 
and patterns but instead of doing it with the woman who lives next door - we 
are doing it with our friends around the world.

I come on this site and say, wow, I've got this fabulous book and I've made 
this piece out of it and you won't believe how gorgeous it is and here is a 
picture on my website.  Now, say 6 people go and look at the piece - which is a 
reasonable response to an email - and one of them say 'wow' I want to make that 
and buys the book then we have done a good thing.

With bragging about your lace you are putting the copyright laws in a moral 
quandry - promotion over copyright - and this is where the law is very grey - 
from what I have seen on looking into this, the law does not condone breaches 
of copyright (which posting on your web site is) but und

[lace-chat] Copyright - my two penn'th

2004-08-27 Thread Brenda Paternoster
My understanding of copyright is that you are not permitted to 
*reproduce* something which is in copyright without permission.   In 
UK, if you own a book, you are allowed to make copies for your own 
personal use, which means that if the book shows a short length of lace 
pattern you can make several copies to go around a roller pillow, or 
make 4 copies of a corner to make a square, plus the (enlarged) working 
copy which you doodle over etc.

Reproduction of a lace pattern, or a dressmaking pattern, could be by 
photocopying, photography (film or digital), electronic scanning, 
tracing or skilled detailed drawing.  Reproduction of a cookery recipe, 
or instructions for making the lace or dress could be by photocopying, 
photography (film or digital), electronic scanning, writing, typing, 
word processing or audio recording.

Using the pattern/recipe to make a piece of lace, a dress or a cake is 
not reproduction of the original, but using the original as a tool.  I 
can't see that your own photo of the lace you have made, the dress you 
have sewn, or the cake you have baked is a breach of copyright if you 
choose to publish it on a personal website.

I design most of my own lace patterns, or if I use someone else's it is 
generally adapted quite a bit.  That's because I like being creative 
and get more satisfaction from working my own designs.  Over the years 
I've made a few pennies from selling BL patterns, but the financial 
return in consideration of the hours spent designing and making is very 
minimal.  I also know that a lot of people will "share" patterns - 
'we'll buy one each and make copies'.  Whilst that's illegal it's 
hardly worth making a fuss about.  Only if I saw someone selling my 
patterns without permission would I get upset.  If I go to a lace day 
and see one of my designs on a pillow, or finished and on display I get 
a kick of pride knowing that I designed it, and I take it as a 
compliment that someone else liked the pattern enough to make it up.

Brenda
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
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[lace-chat] Copyright

2004-08-26 Thread Jean Peach
For sometime my DH and I have been tracing letters that are in many
universities in the UK, such as Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge,
these are just a few. Now these letters, some were written by DH
great grandfather or written to him by famous people.  So far we 
have not been allowed to see these letters, we do have a copy of 
an interview he gave to the press in 1861. We have to now make 
an appointment at the National History Museum.  We have to 
take documentation showing that my DH is the great grandson, 
then we have to go into discussion.  

What are we trying to do, put together documentation of a man 
who led a very interesting life, whose great great great 
grandson has asked us to find out more about his life.  Even 
though some of these letters were written by a family member 
we have no automatic right to  even see the letters.

Jean in Newbury




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