Re: [lace] Copyright etc.

2010-10-02 Thread Achim Siebert
We are all made to feel so guilty about this copyright issue that we dare not breathe without thinking of potential issues involved. Thank you, Brian, for applying some common sense to this topic! Similar to students who cannot afford the software that they need to learn to later make some

Re: [lace] Copyright etc.

2010-10-02 Thread Laceandbits
In a message dated 02/10/2010 11:10:21 GMT Daylight Time, ac...@achims.de writes: I know of a pattern creator who doesn't even allows for the lace made from her patterns to be displayed! But surely, if you have legitimately paid for the pattern, the lace you make from it is your own copyright

Re: [lace] Copyright etc.

2010-10-02 Thread Achim Siebert
Hello Jacquie, Am 02.10.2010 um 12:42 schrieb laceandb...@aol.com: Why doesn't she want as many people as possible to see her designs anyway? And surely if it is shown made by people other than herself, that demonstrates it is a good workable pattern. And what would she do if you did display

Re: [lace] Copyright etc.

2010-10-02 Thread Claire Allen
Prime example of someone being a little over precious if you ask me. It has clearly lost her sales in two ways. Firstly people like you Achim who won't now buy her designs and all the people who may have seen worked samples and bought designs from her. If the patterns are that simple torchon,

[lace] Copyright etc.

2010-10-02 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
I was pleasantly surprised at the recent IOLI convention at Portland, that in the lesson I had with Elena Dickson, she was quite happy for us to photocopy pages from her books, if it was for ourselves, so that we could just take the necessary pages out with us, and not lug the whole book around.