tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post2099914069253173708..comments2024-01-25T14:01:54.284+02:00Comments on Stitch by Stitch: Selling your own patterns?Marelize Rieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06523406413464303882noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post-54048159241524145232013-04-01T00:57:38.813+02:002013-04-01T00:57:38.813+02:00Have read the responses with interest. Isn't ...Have read the responses with interest. Isn't there something in copyright law about "substantially and significantly" different? For instance, I would have thought if you were inspired by some paper and then adapted it for a block and worked out how to produce it, that would be a "substantial" additional change. I think you're on shaky ground with the Lynne Edwards blocks though because although it was free, she wasn't giving it free to sell. I think I'd contact her and just be straight. Maybe she'll be ok to let you sell it for an acknowledgement or for a small per unit commission? Maybe you could link to her pattern and she could offer your buyers a discount? <br /><br />On a personal note, I've just used a free pattern for a bucket bag (pretty much public domain design, I think) and it doesn't explain clearly enough for me the process on how to make it. If I were a beginner, I would have been better off paying a small amount for some better instructions! So the actual quality and understandability and detail of the technical know-how that your instructions cover are important.<br /><br />Not sure if that helps at all?<br />xTiaraHelenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00448619418539423710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post-42214025526505754202013-03-29T03:01:03.116+02:002013-03-29T03:01:03.116+02:00I really like the purple and green top!
And my tak...I really like the purple and green top!<br />And my take...if it is a "common" block, you can write up your own instructions for how to color it and sell the pattern. As for the golf one, you can obviously use the blocks that you made. I would not use the blocks from the book unless you can prove that it is a common block and you chose the color scheme. Or unless you get permission from Lynne Edwards.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312372228173240728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post-12285069678995127332013-03-27T14:39:45.679+02:002013-03-27T14:39:45.679+02:00Oh dear, I don't honestly know the answers. I...Oh dear, I don't honestly know the answers. I know it seems to me like there's nothing new under the sun...so hopefully someone can help you more carefully. Love those quilts!Sewing Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12732859126503468680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post-89878438469971486992013-03-27T14:32:48.003+02:002013-03-27T14:32:48.003+02:00I was thinking about this recently too when I desi...I was thinking about this recently too when I designed my puzzle block. I did not find another pattern similar to mine and spent many hours working out the math and shapes of the pieces. I KNOW that design is mine, but another quilt I am working on uses a very common star block. I wanted to make a pattern for this quilt though because of the sashing I designed for it.<br /><br />I think Karin put it clearly, just be careful about how you word your pattern and be sure you aren't copying someone's original work. Or when you plan to make a pattern for something, maybe just be sure to design the elements yourself other then the more common blocks.Kelly Vetchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08179601378863204191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post-7434363896471870982013-03-27T14:06:30.650+02:002013-03-27T14:06:30.650+02:00You've posed a very good question. Good for yo...You've posed a very good question. Good for you, I say, for thinking of it. Many do not. The issue of copyright is important to quilters and all artists. Kathleen Bissett writes an excellent article about this very subject, which you may find on the Waterloo County Quilters Guild website, http://www.wcquiltersguild.on.ca/. Look on the left sidebar at the bottom for the copyright button. Hope this helps. Kitchener Quilterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512045004228156470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post-90365509068597580122013-03-27T13:20:17.515+02:002013-03-27T13:20:17.515+02:00Hi...this is very tricky. Remember my baby quilt. ...Hi...this is very tricky. Remember my baby quilt. I was going to sell that pattern. When I researched this further I found that the block also goes by another name and that there was a free pattern on the internet...felt very defeated, I must say. I decided to put the pattern up for free as well now. To your first question: you need to find out whether the block is in the public domain (which it probably is), then you need to do some research to find whether anyone else has put up a quilt like that. And then it goes into the hair splitting...because one could argue that it is your own given that yours will be a different quilt as you used your own colours etc. Similarly to my baby quilt...the quilt I found was essentially the same, however was in different colours and had a border. However it was essentially the same design and I thought it would be slightly unethical to put this up for sale if people could grab it for free from the net.<br />The blocks in the second question...again you would have to establish whether they are in the public domain. If they are all is good and you could use this pattern given that the applique is your own. And , just reading above, yes, the instructions you would write would have to be your own words, not taken from where you found the blocks...<br />On the other hand, I have gone to some pattern sale sites where I have found that people are selling the instructions for individual blocks that looked very familiar. Very odd ...I have just gone through several weeks of reading about this and must say there is a huge amount of confusion around this topic. Karinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686641496335692071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2766211193464475676.post-88161145775712886472013-03-27T09:34:20.009+02:002013-03-27T09:34:20.009+02:00Here's my take on it. For the top quilt, given...Here's my take on it. For the top quilt, given the block itself is not original to the place you found it, provided you wrote your own instructions, then yes, you could. For the second quilt, it would depend on the level of originality of the block designs you took from the book. If they're traditional blocks, or minor variations on traditional blocks, then you're probably ok, but if the author of the book has drawn them herself, it's probably not right to take them and use them in your own pattern. Either way, you'd have to write the instructions yourself, not copy existing words.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08418320852653847841noreply@blogger.com