My Star Wars Knit and Crochet patterns page is updated

Duh, responding to my own thread, because I forgot the darn link:

That would certainly be poetic justice, since you are stealing the characters from Lucasfilm in the first place.

Other people get paid to share their charts and patterns, witness the Harry Potter knitting book. While I've been offered publishing, I turned it down, because I remember not being able to afford patterns like this that I would have loved to have as a child.

I don't think it's fair that other people should be ripped off and made to pay for something that's always been free. It's not in any way, shape, or form "justice".

BTW, if Lucasarts had a problem with my patterns, I'm sure they'd have said something by now, as info about my work has been posted on boards that people who work there belong to. If it ever got to Mr. Lucas himself, and he decided he didn't want to see knit or crochet patterns offered for free, of course I'd take them down.

What a strange and pathetic flame attempt. If you don't like the idea I offer patterns for free and want to make sure everyone who wants them isn't ripped off, then don't read my page updates. You can reply all you want, flame away if you've nothing better to do, but you're going in the trash.

Leah

Please read copyright myths numbers 2 ("If I don't charge for it, it's not a violation.") and 6 ("If I make up my own stories, but base them on another work, my new work belongs to me.") on this web site:

law makes no allowance for whether something is free or not as to whether a violation has occurred. That only affects the amount of damages an intellectual property owner is allowed to collect. Copy rights are about the right of the intellectual property owner to protect and control the distribution of their work. Because of this I find it very strange that you are concerned about the redistribution of your derivative works of something that is surely copyrighted but you feel free to ignore copyright law to create them in the first place. I had a four-year fight with a web site owner to remove things I had written elsewhere from their web site (that supported a philosophy that I did not agree with and did not appreciate this person cutting and pasting my words into their web site in a manner that caused a misrepresentation of my stance on the issue the web site owner promoted. This was not about money, and I was completely within my rights to insist that what I had written be removed and that the web site owner stop making it look like I was a relatively active participant on her web site. This is why I feel so passionate about protection of copy rights and intellectual property ownership.