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Copyright is a slippery slope—well, not so slippery, but remember that if someone designed or wrote it - it's copyrighted! You can't copyright an idea, but it drives me mad when I teach a class, and someone takes my lesson plans and reteaches the project to others. I hope my notes, which I generously share with the students, are not being used! I must remember to start putting a watermark on everything I send out. 

The bottom line is do not copy any published material you did not write or design. It is illegal to copy ANYTHING and ...

Copyright infringement on quilts is an interesting topic, and YES --- it is still a big deal amongst the designers, not the copiers. 

I won't go into the whole thing this morning, but here are a few things to remember.

 Some designers, especially those who haven't been around for a while, will freak out when they see a quilt similar to their own that someone made, and there is no credit given. Or perhaps they see another new pattern that is very similar to theirs. Well, a log cabin is a log cabin. That pattern cannot be copyrighted as ...

And then after Tracy alerted me to this I found one of my patterns that I submitted to Quiltmaker by the seller referenced in Tracy’s post. I designed a quilt.Hours of work designing and getting the color to work for the quilt top.Selected fabric for said quilt.Cut said fabric up, pieced and quilted it while… Continue reading Help a Quilter, or 100+ Out

Just thought I'd mention something that was being discussed on an embroidery group that I follow over on Facebook.